Oracle Database Migration Assistant for Unicode (DMU) is a unique next-generation migration tool providing an end-to-end solution for migrating your databases from legacy encodings to Unicode. DMU's intuitive user-interface greatly simplifies the migration process and lessens the need for character set migration expertise by guiding the DBA through the entire migration process as well as automating many of the migration tasks. It comes with a scalable in-place migration architecture which significantly reduces the effort and downtime required for data conversion, comparing to conventional export and import migration methods. For post-migration and existing databases already using the Unicode character set, the DMU also has a validation mode, in which it identifies data not correctly encoded in Unicode, thus providing a healthcheck on potential issues with implementation of Unicode in database applications.
