diff --git a/kamailio/trunks/config/kamailio.cfg b/kamailio/trunks/config/kamailio.cfg
index ac0b974c772..6990a8ccf44 100644
--- a/kamailio/trunks/config/kamailio.cfg
+++ b/kamailio/trunks/config/kamailio.cfg
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ modparam("pike", "remove_latency", 120)
 modparam("htable", "htable", "ipban=>size=8;autoexpire=300")
 #!endif
 modparam("htable", "htable", "cgrconn=>size=1;")
-modparam("htable", "htable", "dmq=>size=8;autoexpire=10800;dmqreplicate=1;")
+modparam("htable", "htable", "dmq=>size=8;autoexpire=10800;dmqreplicate=1;dbmode=1")
 modparam("htable", "enable_dmq", 1)
 
 # UAC
diff --git a/kamailio/users/config/kamailio.cfg b/kamailio/users/config/kamailio.cfg
index cf816d30142..83d0572eb56 100644
--- a/kamailio/users/config/kamailio.cfg
+++ b/kamailio/users/config/kamailio.cfg
@@ -364,8 +364,8 @@ modparam("htable", "htable", "ipban=>size=8;autoexpire=300")
 #!endif
 
 # dialogs htable contains aleg, bleg and applicationserver per dialog
-modparam("htable", "htable", "dialogs=>size=10;autoexpire=10800")
-modparam("htable", "htable", "dmq=>size=8;autoexpire=10800;dmqreplicate=1;")
+modparam("htable", "htable", "dialogs=>size=10;autoexpire=10800;dbmode=1")
+modparam("htable", "htable", "dmq=>size=8;autoexpire=10800;dmqreplicate=1;dbmode=1")
 modparam("htable", "htable", "srcban=>size=8;autoexpire=43200")
 modparam("htable", "htable", "badauthcnt=>size=8;autoexpire=43200")
 modparam("htable", "htable", "aors=>size=10")