How to use a persistence database?

[adelynx]

How to use a persistence database?

I have a testing MySQL database (~3GB ) with many default configs already set in our dev server; we don't have migrations files for all tables to be migrated for each test as it's part of a legacy code; we are migrating it to Laravel. My question is, how I can use this database without getting it deleted every time?

Thanks

[adelynx]

I found the issue; I forgot to remove RefreshDatabase::class from my base TestCase. So, I will keep the discussion for someone else maybe has the same issue as I have noticed there are some similar questions on StackOverflow.

Cheers,