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title: 'You can use constrained eager loading to increase performance of database queries that use relations'
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thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-13
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created_at: 2022-04-01T20:40:04+00:00
slug: you-can-use-constrained-eager-loading-to-increase-performance-of-database-queries-that-use-relations
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🔥 #Laravel Tip: Eager loading a model’s relationships is a great way to improve performance / avoid the N+1 problem. However, you can go further… with constrained eager loading you can tell Laravel to only load the related records you actually need.