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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
+<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
+"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
+and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
+<!-- Initial Contributors:
+    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-9665C072-EA52-54B8-87A3-A7F818940DCD" xml:lang="en"><title>What
+is the CommsDat API</title><shortdesc>This topic is an intrdouction to the CommsDat API. Tools and applications
+use the CommsDat API to access the data in the Comms Database. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>The CommsDat DLL implements the CommsDat API. Symbian platform
+loads the CommsDat DLL at boot time. Tools and applications do not load the
+DLL. </p>
+<p>The API made available by the CommsDat DLL is the only method that users
+can use to access the data in the Comms Database. The API maps between client-side
+representations of the data and the data stored in the database. </p>
+<p>Tools and applications see the data as a set of tables. A table is a set
+of records, where each record is an ordered set of fields. Each field holds
+a specified piece of information. A field at a given position in a record
+contains the same type of data in all records. You can consider that each
+field at a given location in a record is in a column. A table can also be
+called a record set. </p>
+<fig id="GUID-5ABD88C0-67E4-5091-BE8F-56ABFED4FEC8">
+<image href="GUID-F7BFE6E3-0EEE-536C-8411-65D8F5FEBF2E_d0e85838_href.png" placement="inline"/>
+</fig>
+<p>Tables, records, columns and fields are all CommsDat elements. An element
+is an item that can be stored in the Comms Database. </p>
+<p>The CommsDat API gives tools and applications a set of classes to retrieve,
+create and change the elements in the Comms Database. The API also gives the
+functionality to access the Comms Database. </p>
+<p> </p>
+</conbody><related-links>
+<link href="GUID-B89D2828-0FEE-5206-97D2-C7D4BBD35799.dita"><linktext>How is the
+                Comms Database secured</linktext></link>
+</related-links></concept>
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