title: Grouping tables within a MySQL database
body: <p>Here's my ponder: 
  I've got some ER diagrams representing several thousand tables in a database. The entities represented in each of the multiple files have some associative relationship as decided by the designer. While relationships exist between entities in other files, they are not mapped. This seems common practice for diagramming databases of this size. </p>
  
  <p>I was entertaining the idea of representing these groupings in a MySQL database. As SCHEMA is an alias to DATABASE in MySQL, I'm not able to find a mechanism for grouping tables within a database. </p>
  
  <p>I'm wondering if anyone else has devised some creative grouping concept that they would like to share with me. Or, better yet, if MySQL supports some mechanism for grouping tables within a database, please let me know. ( I've apparently missed it in my research )</p>