Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Migrating databases from Legacy Characterset to Unicode (Oracle DMU)

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 and that too with maximum data integrity and efficiency.

Traditionally Oracle  Oracles character set migration utilities, CSSCAN & CSALTER were used.

The links to the patch downloads (depending on the version) are on the Support website at Doc Id #1272374.1: The Database Migration Assistant for Unicode (DMU) Tool

Documentation for DMU can be found here