Lack of interest Optional database specified in Entity Structure

[digitalpoint]

I know this is a bit of an edge case and probably going to be specific to people building internal apps on top of XenForo, but with XF2, we lost the ability to specify a table including the database name (before you could name a table in a datawriter as "databasename.tablename"). With the changes to XF2, we lost the ability to do so since the table name is wrapped in "`". Which essentially renders the entity and finder system not viable in those cases.

My personal use cases where I keep large applications' data isolated in their own database are these:

• https://tools.digitalpoint.com/cookie-search (cookie search engine)
  
• https://tools.digitalpoint.com/tracker (organic search ranking tracker)
  
• https://marketplace.digitalpoint.com/ (digital good marketplace)
  
• https://advertising.digitalpoint.com/ (ad platform)
  
• https://monitor.digitalpoint.com/ (equipment monitoring system)
  
• https://inmateintake.com/ (sentencing tool)

While these are all driven by a XF front-end, the backend data is siloed on their own databases.