How to reset auto increment in laravel user deletion?

Question

I have been struggling to find out a way to reset the auto increment value in Laravel 4 but it seems that this functionality is not embedded in laravel 4 at least for now. so i

Answer 1

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

public function refreshDB()
{
    $max = DB::table('users')->max('id') + 1; 
    DB::statement("ALTER TABLE users AUTO_INCREMENT =  $max");
}

// Note: This solution is for resetting the auto_increment of the table without truncating the table itself