I was trying to create a trigger using migrations after trying everything I discovered that all DB:: commands are under a "prepare" condition and some MySQL commands cannot run, actually if you are using DB::exec you don't have to prepare at all if you don't have variables to resolve.

This is what I was trying to do: http://paste.laravel.com/fIa

This is the error MySQL gives: [PDOException] SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2030 This command is not supported in the prepared statement protocol yet

I think it would be great to have an unprepared statement on DB::

Using getPDO made it work fine for me: http://paste.laravel.com/fIh