Question

What can cause data loss in Salesforce?

Answer 1

There are many things which can contribute to the data loss in Salesforce. Which includes :

Migrating to number, per cent, and money, from other data types.

When you change the date and time

Migrating to multi-select picklist from any other type but except picklist.

Moving from Checkbox, auto number,multi-select picklist to any other types.

Changing text area to phone, URL, email, or text.