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Quick Tip

Extra information about the query

You can call the explain() method on queries to know extra information about the query.

Book::where('name', 'Ruskin Bond')->explain()->dd();
Illuminate\Support\Collection {#5344
all: [
{#15407
+"id": 1,
+"select_type": "SIMPLE",
+"table": "books",
+"partitions": null,
+"type": "ALL",
+"possible_keys": null,
+"key": null,
+"key_len": null,
+"ref": null,
+"rows": 9,
+"filtered": 11.11111164093,
+"Extra": "Using where",
},
],
}

Tip given by @amit_merchant

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