How to sort NULL values last using Eloquent in Laravel

Question

I\'ve got a many to many relationship between my employees and groups table. I\'ve created the pivot table, and all is working correctly with that. However, I\'ve got a sort

Answer 1

Instead of relying on an arbitrary large number you can also do:

public function employees()
{
    return $this
        ->hasMany('Employee')
        ->select(['*', DB::raw('sortOrder IS NULL AS sortOrderNull')])
        ->orderBy('sortOrderNull')
        ->orderBy('sortOrder');
}

It has an added benefit of being supported by SQLite.