Laravel 5.1 Migration and Seeding Cannot truncate a table referenced in a foreign key constraint

Question

I\'m trying to run the migration (see below) and seed the database, but when I run

php artisan migrate --seed

I get this error:

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Answer 1

you can use

DB::table('your_table_name')->delete();

to empty a table, this won't delete the table structure. But the auto increment id will not start from initial number.