Techniques

The following techniques can improve the process involving adoption:

Identify the purpose and scope of the adoption. Avoid an adoption on all objects if you require only a limited adoption.
Refrain from deleting and recreating objects (thereby losing common ancestry) which forces an adopt before a migrate.
Put procedures in place for tracking name changes that are not picked up by an adopt.
Avoid large adoptions during peak processing hours. Keep adoptions small (less than 10 minutes) if you must perform them during peak time.
Know what is running before an adoption. Do not adopt if other large encyclopedia jobs are running.
Notify all encyclopedia users in advance if you must perform an adoption during peak processing hours.
Whenever possible, schedule large adoptions to run during a time period for single stream processing.
Use trial adoption only when necessary to identify and exclude objects that should not be adopted, such as those with the same name, or to ensure that no unintended name changes occur.