A simple way to seed a database

If you want to seed data from SQL file, no need to transform all those "insert into..." statements into seeders.

You can just run DB query directly from the seeder, calling that SQL file.

class SomeSeeder extends Seeder
{
    public function run()
    {
        \DB::unprepared(
            file_get_contents(__DIR__ . './dump.sql')
        );
    }
}