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How to handle long-running jobs in Laravel

Jan 29, 2023

Long-running jobs can be difficult to work with, they can: - Be killed before they end - Be difficult to retry - Fail/Succeed depending on the inpu

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Laravel orWhere: how to use and group queries

Oct 22, 2022

In Laravel we can use the `orWhere` method to add an `or` SQL statement in our queries. The basic usage is pretty simple but it can get confusing w

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Using pivot tables in Laravel: The complete guide to custom intermediary tables in many-to-many relationships

Oct 22, 2022

When working with many-to-many relationships the table structure is a little more complex than other relationships. When using many-to-many relatio

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Which is faster: whereHas vs join

Sep 28, 2022

I have heard multiple times that `whereHas` queries are slower than `join` queries, so I decided to test it to figure out if I should stop writing `wh

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Query a nested relationship with "where" clause using Eloquent

Sep 16, 2022

If you've ever run into a problem where you need to filter an Eloquent model by a **relationship of a relationship** and also **eager load both of tho

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