So I just saw this KB article; neat point of information:

The maximum permitted record space for each BlackBerry smartphone user is 4850 KB in the BlackBerry Configuration Database and the average space required by each BlackBerry smartphone user is 400KB. A typical entry in the MsAddresses table in the BlackBerry Configuration Database is approximately 300 bytes in size. The MsAddresses table contains two copies of the contact list so that the BlackBerry smartphone user accounts...

A friend of mine wanted to take two scripts he had:

1. Obtained device free handheld memory
2. Grabbed some user info from various tables (Name, email address, BES, Mode, OS Version, Password status (enabled / disabled) IT Policy name & applied time)

and wanted them combined into a single query. The difficult thing is that to get free handheld memory you need to do some converting and parsing of data from the SyncDeviceMgmt table in the BlackBerry Configuration Database.

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I was recently working with a friend who was building a new BES 5 environment / migrating from 4.x and had more than 200 CAL's that needed to be added to the database.

Adding through the BAS is a "one at a time" approach with no easy way to do the import ... but as we all know the keys are all stored in the BlackBerry Configuration Database (BESMgmt) in the licensekeys table. So we'd just add the data to the table in question, right? Well ... kinda.

I was...