How to run raw SQL query in migration Laravel ?

Laravel provides its inbuilt feature to take care of migrations, Migrations like to make the version control for our database schema and share it across the developers but in laravel migrations we need to create eloquent query Using the schema class or Facade and then we need to run it using php artisan migrate command.

If you wanted to use laravel migration then we can use as below in our migration file

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreateTestTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
      DB::statement('ALTER TABLE `users` MODIFY `age` DATETIME');         
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('users'); \\or whatever you want on rollback
    }
}

Also Read : How to run raw query laravel eloquent ?

Raw SQL migration using package

Sometimes we use phpMyAdmin or any other tool to create our tables and to modify the columns in database but we also wanted to keep track of them to share the schema across the developers. So for this purpose we have created a laravel package to keep the track of raw SQL migration using package Laravel raw sql query migration

You can read the documentation here https://github.com/Readerstacks/laravel_query_migration

Let’s understand how it works

Install Package

To install the package we can simply run the below command

composer require readerstacks/querymigration

Above Command will update your composer.json

Add provider to config.php

You need to update your application configuration in order to register the package so it can be loaded by Laravel, just update your config/app.php file adding the following code at the end of your 'providers' section:

<?php

return [
    // ...
    'providers' => [
        Readerstacks\QueryMigration\QueryMigrationServiceProvider::class,
        // ...
    ],
    // ...
];

Publish config file

Now publish config file so we can keep track of our raw SQL migrations

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Readerstacks\QueryMigration\QueryMigrationServiceProvider"

Now create table in database for raw query using below command

php artisan migrate

Above Command will create a table in database named as query_migrations .

Basic usage SQL Migration package

Run Migrations

php artisan QueryMigrate migrate

Laravel Usage

Add Query

php artisan QueryMigrate add --run

This will ask to enter the query to update the migration file and also run the query in database

If you want to update the migration and not wanted to run in database then remove –run option as below

php artisan QueryMigrate add 

Check pending migrations

In your terminal type

php artisan QueryMigrate pending

Run migrations

In your terminal type

php artisan QueryMigrate migrate

List all migrations

In your terminal type

php artisan QueryMigrate list

Run single migration only

In your terminal type

php artisan QueryMigrate migrate --uid=uid_of_migration 

Run single migration again

In your terminal type

php artisan QueryMigrate migrate --uid=uid_of_migration  --f

To get the UID of migration you can open config/query_migration_config.php and find UID of query.

Remove single migration only

In your terminal type

php artisan QueryMigrate remove --uid=uid_of_migration 

Remove All migration

In your terminal type

php artisan QueryMigrate removeAll

Remove single migration only

In your terminal type

php artisan QueryMigrate remove --uid=uid_of_migration 

Check pending migration

In your terminal type

php artisan QueryMigrate pending