System requirements: BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express databases

Item

Requirement

database management system

Any of the following database management systems:
  • MSDE 2000 SP3
  • Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 SP3 (32-bit or 64-bit)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP3
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit)

For all versions of the Microsoft SQL Server earlier than Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3, Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-004 (for more information, visit http://technet.microsoft.com to read article KB960082).

collation setting

The following conditions on the database server:
  • collation set to default case-insensitive
  • BlackBerry® Configuration Database collation set to default case-insensitive
  • BlackBerry® database notification system and Microsoft SQL Server collation must be the same
  • default collations are recommended though non-default collations are supported (for more information, visit http://technet.microsoft.com to read articles KB04785 and KB15534)

remote database conditions

TCP/IP network protocols turned on

database transactional replication

To support database transactional replication for the BlackBerry Configuration Database , the following conditions:
  • the database server must be Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 or later
  • the database server that hosts the replicated database must use the same version and build as the primary database

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