Make database portable

[znicholls]

Description

Checklist

Please confirm that this pull request has done the following:

• Tests added
• Documentation added (where applicable)
• Changelog item added to changelog/

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 96.96%. Comparing base (bf65fb5) to head (7bd7aaa).
⚠️ Report is 112 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

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[znicholls]

@crdanielbusch I need this for other stuff I'm doing so am going to merge and release. Please take a look. If you see any problems, please make an issue and we can follow up in a future pull request. Thanks!