How to import and export IT policies using the Bulk Copy Program (BCP)

Article ID: KB10309

Type: Support Content

Last Modified: 10-31-2011

 

Product(s) Affected:

  • BlackBerry® Enterprise Server
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To export and import IT policies, open a command prompt window on the Microsoft SQL Server and type the following commands:

BlackBerry Enterprise Server 3.6 and earlier

Export IT policies

bcp besmgmt..itpolicy out c:\itpolicy.txt -c -T -S SQLServername\SQLInstance

bcp besmgmt..itpolicy2 out c:\itpolicy2.txt -c -T -S SQLServername\SQLInstance

bcp besmgmt..itpolicytemplate out c:\itpolicytemplate.txt -c -T -S SQLServername\SQLInstance

bcp besmgmt..itpolicytemplate2 out c:\itpolicytemplate2.txt -c -T -S SQLServername\SQLInstance

Where besmgmt is the name of the database, c:\itpolicy.txt, c:\itpolicy2.txt, c:\itpolicytemplate.txt, and c:\itpolicytemplate2.txt are the names and locations of the exported files, and C:SQLServername\SQLInstance is the name of the Microsoft SQL Server instance hosting the database.

Import IT policies

bcp besmgmt..itpolicy in c:\itpolicy.txt -c -T -S SQLServername\SQLInstance

bcp besmgmt..itpolicy2 in c:\itpolicy2.txt -c -T -S SQLServername\SQLInstance

bcp besmgmt..itpolicytemplate in c:\itpolicytemplate.txt -c -T -S SQLServername\SQLInstance

bcp besmgmt..itpolicytemplate2 in c:\itpolicytemplate2.txt -c -T -S SQLServername\SQLInstance

Where besmgmt is the name of the database, c:\itpolicy.txt, c:\itpolicy2.txt, c:\itpolicytemplate.txt, and c:\itpolicytemplate2.txt are the names and locations of the files containing the IT policy information that will be imported into the database, and C:SQLServername\SQLInstance is the name of the Microsoft SQL Server instance hosting the database.


BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.0

 

Export IT policies

bcp besmgmt..itpolicy2 out c:\itpolicy2.txt -c -T -S SQLServername\SQLInstance

bcp besmgmt..itpolicytemplate2 out c:\itpolicytemplate2.txt -c -T -S SQLServername\SQLInstance
 

Where besmgmt is the name of the database, c:\itpolicy2.txt. and c:\itpolicytemplate2.txt are the names and locations of the exported files, and C:SQLServername\SQLInstance is the name of the Microsoft SQL Server instance hosting the database.

Import IT policies

bcp besmgmt..itpolicy2 in c:\itpolicy2.txt -c -T -S SQLServername\SQLInstance

bcp besmgmt..itpolicytemplate2 in c:\itpolicytemplate2.txt -c -T -S SQLServername\SQLInstance

Where besmgmt is the name of the database, c:\itpolicy2.txt and c:\itpolicytemplate2.txt are the names and locations of the files containing the IT policy information that will be imported into the database, and C:SQLServername\SQLInstance is the name of the Microsoft SQL Server instance hosting the database.


BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 and later

BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 does not allow the bulk copy program (BCP) Import and Export commands to access data, because Microsoft SQL Server stores this as binary data.

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  • BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 3.6 and later
  • Microsoft® SQL Server®

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