using more than one database

[OwenTheSamoan]

I have a website with very heavy traffic and there are quite a few heavy requests made to the database at one time. To speed things up, would it be better to use more than one database at a time and use some tables in one database and other tables from the site in another database and link the two somehow when necessary? I'm clueless in this matter.

OwenTheSamoan

[tomhath]

I doubt that would help. Probably the easiest/cheapest way to speed it up is to add more memory (RAM) to the machine.