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Once you have added the 2nd database (read above) go to the Model Generator in Gii. Change there the DB connection to whatever you named the connection in yii-config (in the example above it was "db2") and set tablename in format: SCHEMA.TBL_NAME. If MSSQL server has more databases, one of them is set to be the main DB. This will be used I think. I haven't succeeded to change the DB. DB can be set in the DSN string, but it had no effect in my case.

**Using composer-packages (libraries) - for example PhpExcel in Yii 2**
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In previous chapters I showed how to use PhpExcel in Yii 1. Now I needed it also in Yii 2 and it was extremely easy:

Note: [PhpExcel](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel) was deprecated and is noe replaced with [PhpSpreadsheet](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet)

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