When you setup new Laravel project, some built-in (box) migrations files are added. There is one for cache table among them.

At this step there are no tables in db or somewhere else, it's just mirations files in database/migrations folder

Laravel configuration allows cache to be stored in the database. For that to happen, you must first set up a database. You can configure your database in your .env file at the root of your project.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=your_db_name
DB_USERNAME=your_db_username
DB_PASSWORD=your_db_password

Then you need to create your_db_name on your mysql server. Run the following commands in the shell:

mysql.server start
mysql -u your_db_username -p your_db_password
create database your_db_name;
use your_db_name;
show tables;

You should see - the db is empty.

Next, you will need to update the .env file to specify that we want to use the database as a cache driver. Update the value of the CACHE_DRIVER (older Laravel versions) or CACHE_STORE (last Laravel versions) variable in your .env file to database:

CACHE_STORE=database

Now you can run the migrations to create tables in your database:

php artisan migrate

And that's it! You now have your Laravel application set up to use a database as a cache driver.

To verify any table structure use command

describe table_name;