Providers Host Configuration kind (brand) of DBMS used. will be a controlled vocabulary. if left out it is determined dynamically through server environment variables. 8bit text encoding used for non unicode strings. As found in the python libraries .\lib\encodings. see also http://www.biocase.org/dev/providerconf/encodings.shtml 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. The level of debug information in the XML output. Default-value of 0 will produce minimal, human readable error messages. A level of 2 is a detailed list of error tracing messages. 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.