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MongoDB 4 Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   MongoDB 4 Quick Start Guide Learn the skills you need to work with the world's most popular NoSQL database

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343533
Length 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Creating a MongoDB database and collection

It is now time to put into practice how to create a MongoDB database and collection. The Chapter 3, Using the MongoDB Shell, will show you how to perform operations using the MongoDB shell. For the purposes of this introductory chapter we will use MongoDB Compass (https://www.mongodb.com/products/compass), which is a free graphical utility you can use to perform administration.

To create a MongoDB database and start a collection using MongoDB Compass, proceed as follows:

  1. Open MongoDB Compass using the link as appropriate to your operating system. In this illustration we are using Ubuntu Linux, so we launch using the GUI.
  2. Click on the plus sign (+) to create a database:
  3. When the Create Database dialog box appears, enter the name of the database and the name of the first collection. When first creating a database, you cannot have one...

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