Laravel allows connecting multiple databases with different database engines. Laravel has inbuilt support for multiple database systems. While developing a web application sometimes we need to use multiple databases because of project requirement or large scale projects, in this time Laravel allows using multiple database connections. In this blog, we'll explore how to use multiple databases in Laravel.

To configure a second database connection in Laravel, you'll need to update the config/database.php file.
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