Providers Host Configuration kind (brand) of DBMS used. will be a controlled vocabulary. text encoding as found in the python libraries .\lib\encodings. see also http://www.biocase.org/dev/providerconf/encodings.shtml if left out it is determined dynamically through server environment variables. A list of aliases for tables and their keys representing the DB structure. All aliases have to be unique and no circular relation is allowed. holds the filepath to one DBmapping file. Logging information. If left out the default is daily simple logging. Limits the maximum of records returned for a query. The primary key(s) of the table. Attribute(s) that are the primary keys. If no dbType is given, it is assumed to be a string. for every foreign key in the table, the targeted alias of a table is given as a attribute. Attribute(s) that are the foreign keys. Have to be in the same order as the primary keys of the table they are pointing to. If no dbType is given, it is assumed to be a string.