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In a Joomla installation of CiviCRM is it possible to tell  the installer to use a specific database other than the Joomla database, and even possibly on a different server?

For instance, presuming Joomla is running on a machine and using the local mysql server and a database, can I force CiviCRM to use a remote hostname and DB for its tables?

I'm trying to isolate the databases for security.  I'd like to host the CiviCRM records on a separate mysql instance.  The idea being that I'd like to complicate the process of getting to the civi database if some type of future Joomla exploit managed to dump a copy of every table in the joomla database.