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Laravel whereDate() Silently Kills Your Index

Laravel's whereDate() method, while intuitive and widely used, disables database indexes and causes massive slowdowns.

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On large tables, this approach transforms indexed queries into full table scans, degrading performance by 100x or more.

Developers should prefer direct comparison on date columns with proper indexing.

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