diff --git a/fhem/contrib/dblog/README b/fhem/contrib/dblog/README
index 0264a29ca..f45ffcaed 100644
--- a/fhem/contrib/dblog/README
+++ b/fhem/contrib/dblog/README
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
-For usage instruction see commandref.html, section define
-2007-12-30bn
+For usage instruction see commandref.html, section define of DbLog
 
-- 93_DbLog.pm
-  copy this file into <modpath>/FHEM
 - db.conf
   sample database configuration file
-- fhemdb_create.sql
-  sample sql command to create a mysql database for logging purposes
+- db_create_mysql.sql
+  sample sql command to create a MySQL or MariaDB database for logging purposes
+- db_create_postgresql.sql
+  sample sql command to create a PostgreSQL database for logging purposes
+- db_create_sqlite.sql
+  sample sql command to create a SQLite database for logging purposes
 - fhemdb_get.pl
-  sample perl script for retrieving the current (latest) data from
+  short sample perl script for retrieving the current (latest) data from
   the logging database
 
diff --git a/fhem/contrib/dblog/db.conf b/fhem/contrib/dblog/db.conf
index 93e3c643a..922643cc0 100644
--- a/fhem/contrib/dblog/db.conf
+++ b/fhem/contrib/dblog/db.conf
@@ -1,36 +1,54 @@
 ####################################################################################
-# database configuration file     
-# 	
+# database configuration file
+#
 # NOTE:
 # If you don't use a value for user / password please delete the leading hash mark
-# and write 'user => ""' respectively 'password => ""' instead !	
+# and write 'user => ""' respectively 'password => ""' instead !
 #
 #
-## for MySQL                                                      
+## for MySQL
 ####################################################################################
-#%dbconfig= (                                                    
-#    connection => "mysql:database=fhem;host=db;port=3306",       
-#    user => "fhemuser",                                          
+#%dbconfig= (
+#    connection => "mysql:database=fhem;host=<database host>;port=3306",
+#    # if want communication over socket-file instead of TCP/IP transport, use:
+#    # connection => "mysql:database=fhem;mysql_socket=</path/socket-file>",
+#    user => "fhemuser",
 #    password => "fhempassword",
-#    # optional enable(1) / disable(0) UTF-8 support (at least V 4.042 is necessary) 	
-#    utf8 => 1   
-#);                                                              
+#    # optional enable UTF-8 support
+#    # (full UTF-8 support exists from DBD::mysql version 4.032, but installing version 4.042 is highly suggested)
+#    utf8 => 1,
+#    # optional enable communication compression between client and server
+#    compression => 1    
+#);
 ####################################################################################
-#                                                                
-## for PostgreSQL                                                
+#
+## for MariaDB
 ####################################################################################
-#%dbconfig= (                                                   
-#    connection => "Pg:database=fhem;host=localhost",        
-#    user => "fhemuser",                                     
-#    password => "fhempassword"                              
-#);                                                              
+#%dbconfig= (
+#    connection => "MariaDB:database=fhem;host=<database host>;port=3306",
+#    # if want communication over socket-file instead of TCP/IP transport, use:
+#    # connection => "MariaDB:database=fhem;mariadb_socket=</path/socket-file>",
+#    user => "fhemuser",
+#    password => "fhempassword",
+#    # optional enable communication compression between client and server
+#    compression => 1 
+#);
 ####################################################################################
-#                                                                
-## for SQLite (username and password stay empty for SQLite)      
+#
+## for PostgreSQL
 ####################################################################################
-#%dbconfig= (                                                   
-#    connection => "SQLite:dbname=/opt/fhem/fhem.db",        
-#    user => "",                                             
-#    password => ""                                          
-#);                                                              
+#%dbconfig= (
+#    connection => "Pg:database=fhem;host=<database host>",
+#    user => "fhemuser",
+#    password => "fhempassword"
+#);
+####################################################################################
+#
+## for SQLite (username and password stay empty for SQLite)
+####################################################################################
+#%dbconfig= (
+#    connection => "SQLite:dbname=/opt/fhem/fhem.db",
+#    user => "",
+#    password => ""
+#);
 ####################################################################################