Databases in Telecommunications : International Workshop Co located with VLDB 99 Edinburgh Scotland UK September 6th 1999. Proceedings This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post proceedings of the International Workshop on Databases in Telecommunications held in Edinburgh Scotland UK in September 1999 during the VLDB 99 conference. The 13 revised full papers presented together with a panel discussion report have gone through two rounds of reviewing and revision. This book is the first one devoted to establishing strong connections between the telecommunications and databases research and development communities. Among the topics covered are data management in networks database technology for network management service configuration performance analysis data warehousing distributed databases scalability issues interoperability amd mobility