How to convert Laravel migrations to raw SQL scripts?

Question

Developers of my team are really used to the power of Laravel migrations, they are working great on local machines and our dev servers. But customer\'s database admin will not a

Answer 1

Just in case you are facing the same problem as I did:

php artisan migrate --pretend

did not output anything, yet runs the SQLs without adding the record to migrations. In other words,

• it does the SQL job, which was not intended
• returned nothing, which was the reason I did the call and
• did not add the entry to migrations, which sort of destroys the situations as I was not able to re-run the migration without manually remove tables

The reason for it was my setup with several databases, which are addressed with

Schema::connection('master')->create('...

More on that issue you may find here: https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/13431

Sadly, a Laravel developer closed the issue, quote "Closing since the issue seems to be a rare edge case that can be solved with a workaround.", so there is not much hope, it will be fixed anytime soon. For my maybe rare case, I'll use a third party SQL diff checker.

Cheers