Laravel Artisan Migration Command: The migrate:rollback Command

The migrate:rollback command is used to undo the last database migration. There are a number of options and flags that are available to use when calling the migrate:rollback command. The following table lists and describes the various options.

The following examples demonstrate how to use the migrate:rollback command:

 1# Call the command with defaults.
 2php artisan migrate:rollback
 3 
 4# Call the command while specifying the connection name.
 5php artisan migrate:rollback --database=mysql
 6 
 7# Rollback the migrations on a production environment.
 8php artisan migrate:rollback --force
 9 
10# Do not perform any database connections and simply list
11# the SQL queries that would have been performed.
12php artisan migrate:rollback --pretend

The migrate:rollback will undo the migrations with the highest batch number. If multiple migrations have the same highest batch number they will all be removed.

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