db select laravel count code example

Example 1: select sum in laravel

Sometime for such queries you need to disable the strict check
 So inside config/database.php and inside mysql, 
 Set 'strict' => false,

->select('user_id', DB::raw('SUM(points) as total_points'))

Example 2: laravel select count

$count = DB::table('category_issue')->count();