Laravel - get last time a table was updated

I am interested in getting the last time a table was updated (which is not necessarily the newest entry - entries might be deleted as well).

In SQL, the solution is easy:

SELECT UPDATE_TIME FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE  TABLE_SCHEMA = 'myDb' AND TABLE_NAME = 'myTable';

However, the only way I manage to do so is to create a new connection.
Assume that my connection is called mysqlConn, my new conenction will look like:

'mysqlConnScheme' => [
    'driver'      => *** same as mysqlConn ***,
    'host'        => *          - " -        *, 
    'port'        => *          - " -        *, 
    'username'    => *          - " -        *, 
    'password'    => *          - " -        *, 
    'database'    => 'information_schema',
],

Then I can retrieve it by:

$updateTime = DB::connection('mysqlConnScheme')
    ->setDatabaseName('information_schema')
    ->table('tables')
    ->select('UPDATE_TIME')
    ->where('TABLE_SCHEMA', '=', 'myDb')
    ->where('TABLE_NAME', '=', 'myTable')
    ->first();

I wonder if there is any way to do so without creating another connection.

via Chebli Mohamed