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Learn MongoDB 4.x

You're reading from   Learn MongoDB 4.x A guide to understanding MongoDB development and administration for NoSQL developers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789619386
Length 610 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Essentials
2. Introducing MongoDB 4.x FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up MongoDB 4.x 4. Essential MongoDB Administration Techniques 5. Section 2: Building a Database-Driven Web Application
6. Fundamentals of Database Design 7. Mission-Critical MongoDB Database Tasks 8. Using AJAX and REST to Build a Database-Driven Website 9. Section 3: Digging Deeper
10. Advanced MongoDB Database Design 11. Using Documents with Embedded Lists and Objects 12. Handling Complex Queries in MongoDB 13. Section 4: Replication, Sharding, and Security in a Financial Environment
14. Working with Complex Documents Across Collections 15. Administering MongoDB Security 16. Developing in a Secured Environment 17. Deploying a Replica Set 18. Replica Set Runtime Management and Development 19. Deploying a Sharded Cluster 20. Sharded Cluster Management and Development 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Formulating queries involving embedded objects

Management has asked you to create a financial report that provides a summary of revenue generated by users with Facebook accounts. Looking at the structure of documents in the booksomeplace.bookings collection, you note that the Facebook page for customers is contained within a socialMedia array, which itself is contained in an embedded document, customerContact. You further note that information in the socialMedia array is keyed according to the social media type.

The MongoDB internal document representation closely follows JSON syntax. Accordingly, there are no object class types assigned when the document is stored in the database. You can access object properties by simply appending a dot (.) after the field that references the object. So, in our example, the customerContact field represents a Contact object. It, in turn, is nested in the field referenced by customer. In order to reference information...

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