How to delete all the rows in a table using Eloquent?

Question

My guess was to use the following syntax:

MyModel::all()->delete();

But that did not work. I\'m sure it\'s super simple, but I\'ve searched

Answer 1

I wanted to add another option for those getting to this thread via Google. I needed to accomplish this, but wanted to retain my auto-increment value which truncate() resets. I also didn't want to use DB:: anything because I wanted to operate directly off of the model object. So, I went with this:

Model::whereNotNull('id')->delete();

Obviously the column will have to actually exists, but in a standard, out-of-the-box Eloquent model, the id column exists and is never null. I don't know if this is the best choice, but it works for my purposes.

Answer 2

You can try this one-liner which preserves soft-deletes also:

Model::whereRaw('1=1')->delete();

Answer 3

The reason MyModel::all()->delete() doesn't work is because all() actually fires off the query and returns a collection of Eloquent objects.

You can make use of the truncate method, this works for Laravel 4 and 5:

MyModel::truncate();

That drops all rows from the table without logging individual row deletions.

Answer 4

I wasn't able to use Model::truncate() as it would error:

SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1701 Cannot truncate a table referenced in a foreign key constraint

And unfortunately Model::delete() doesn't work (at least in Laravel 5.0):

Non-static method Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::delete() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context

But this does work:

(new Model)->newQuery()->delete()

That will soft-delete all rows, if you have soft-delete set up. To fully delete all rows including soft-deleted ones you can change to this:

(new Model)->newQueryWithoutScopes()->forceDelete()

Answer 5

simple solution:

 Mymodel::query()->delete();

Answer 6

There is an indirect way:

myModel:where('anyColumnName', 'like', '%%')->delete();

Example:

User:where('id', 'like' '%%')->delete();

Laravel query builder information: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/queries