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is the Comms Database?</title><shortdesc>The Comms Database contains the information necessary to configure

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<context id="GUID-CA4E76D5-2505-48F7-A205-BA42A93FD92B"><p>The Comms Database has a set of parameters used to configure communications

on Symbian platform. The information stored in the Comms Database

is used to configure components in the comms stack. Information such as connection

preferences, account settings and some of the linkage between components can

be set in the comms stack. The configuration data is stored in records in

database tables. The data also has data schema to define the tables. For more

information and a full list of the settings in the Comms Database, see the <xref href="GUID-58089281-9DD0-502D-8DFD-831E7BAA931E.dita">Reference</xref></p><p>The

Comms Database is configured in one of the following ways: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-3CFE8D23-F087-54D1-A6F3-83EDD0510609"><p>It is compiled from

a definition file into a binary file to ship in the ROM of a device. For more

information about how to compile the default version of the database see <xref href="GUID-00696F18-F1C8-5810-A9F9-E7215CA451A4.dita">Configuring comms database

using CED and CEDDUMP</xref>. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-9FACDEE5-5DD7-5118-9C50-84857A379083"><p>It is modified from

the original ROM version via runtime changes made through the Comms Database

(CommsDat) API. For more information about the CommsDat API, see the <xref href="GUID-A19A1F43-E42B-5FC2-AE58-A7BC67B6733A.dita">Migrating from CommDb to

the CommsDat API</xref>. </p> </li>

</ul> <p>For more information about the Comms Database, see <xref href="GUID-BD971173-E009-58DA-AF9C-F4AAFF77B138.dita">Comms

Database</xref>. </p> </context>

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