Is it possible to join a MS-SQL to MySQL in Laravel
<p>I apologize if this is a silly question. This is probably well out of standard practice, but I'm looking to be able to join data from a MS-SQL database with that of MySQL in Laravel 5.2.</p>

<p>I'm not sure if it's possible to do something like...</p>

<pre><code>\DB::connection('sqlsrv')-&gt;table('mstable')
   -&gt;leftJoin(\DB::connection('mysql')-&gt;table('mysqltable'), 
              'mysqltable.shared_id', 
              '=', 
              'mstable.shared_id');
</code></pre>

<p>My thinking is that if Laravel is converting the query early enough into a PHP object, it should be able to. Otherwise, is there a fallback to being able to use the two database types together?</p>