A long, long time ago (2013), I answered on this SO question about using 2 database connections. For some reason, over a decade later, this page still ranks. Let's do an update! Here is how to run more than one database connection. This article is about using databases with different data, not necessary for load balancing (or connection pooling) between databases. However Laravel does have the abi
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