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  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
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<concept id="GUID-1AFDDD6F-CB99-587D-A0B5-D3F5B27F7135" xml:lang="en"><title>Concepts</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
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<p>This section describes the ideas that underly the Comms Database. </p>
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<p>The Comms Database provides system wide storage for communications related
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settings. The Comms Database holds information about Internet Access Providers
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(IAPs), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), GPRS, modems, locations, charge-cards,
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proxies, WAP settings etc. The Comms Database holds this information as a
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set of related tables. </p>
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<p>Symbian platform defines the format of this information, but the Comms
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Database can also contain user-defined data. Symbian support for user-defined
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data is limited to backup and security. </p>
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<p>Tools and applications that manage voice and data transmissions use the
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Comms Database. </p>
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<p>The Comms Database is a persistent store. Tools and applications use the
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CommsDat API to access the data in the Comms Database. The CommsDat API hides
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the structure of the data on the database. The CommsDat API also hides the
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implementation of the database, and allows the implementation to change in
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future versions of Symbian platform without a change to client code. </p>
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<p>The current version of Symbian platform implements the Comms
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Database in the Central Repository. </p>
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<p>The Comms Database is available on all Symbian platforms. </p>
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</conbody><related-links>
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<link href="GUID-00696F18-F1C8-5810-A9F9-E7215CA451A4.dita"><linktext>Configuring
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comms database using CED</linktext></link>
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<link href="GUID-A0948145-32C3-5754-B76D-AD7A8AF001A2.dita"><linktext>Comms database
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configuration file format</linktext></link>
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</related-links></concept>