Introduction

There are various ways to do things in Laravel including fetching data from the database. Today we are going to see how to get the first and the last record from the database in case you need to do something with them, such as first register user or the last one ...etc.

Requisite

Basic Understanding on Laravel framework

Fetch First Record Using DB Facade

Let's take an example on users table. So, all what you need to do in order to fetch the last record using DB Facade is the following:

1DB::table('users')->orderBy('id', 'desc')->first();

Or

1DB::table('users')->latest->first();

Fetch First Record Using Eloquent

With the same procedure, we can work with eloquent models

1App\Models\User::orderBy('id', 'desc')->first();

Or

1App\Models\User::latest()->first();

Fetch Last Record Using DB Facade

Now, it's the time to fetch the first record from the database using the DB facade

1DB::table('users')->first();

Fetch Last Record Using Eloquent

The same process in the DB facade you can do it here

1App\Models\User::first();

Conclusion

Today we knew how to fetch first and last record from the database using DB Facade and Eloquent. So, You have the two methods and what fits your need to use it Since there are no big deals in the performance in this situation between the two methods.

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