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MongoDB Fundamentals

You're reading from   MongoDB Fundamentals A hands-on guide to using MongoDB and Atlas in the real world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839210648
Length 748 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Juned Ahsan Juned Ahsan
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Liviu Nedov Liviu Nedov
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Amit Phaltankar Amit Phaltankar
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Michael Harrison Michael Harrison
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Introduction to MongoDB 2. Documents and Data Types FREE CHAPTER 3. Servers and Clients 4. Querying Documents 5. Inserting, Updating, and Deleting Documents 6. Updating with Aggregation Pipelines and Arrays 7. Data Aggregation 8. Coding JavaScript in MongoDB 9. Performance 10. Replication 11. Backup and Restore in MongoDB 12. Data Visualization 13. MongoDB Case Study Appendix

1. Introduction to MongoDB

Activity 1.01: Setting Up a Movies Database

Solution:

The following steps will help you complete this activity:

  1. First, connect to your MongoDB cluster that was set up as part of Exercise 1.04, Setting Up Your First Free MongoDB Cluster on Atlas. It should look something like this:
    mongo "mongodb+srv://cluster0-zlury.mongodb.net/test" –username   <yourUsername>
  2. Enter the preceding command on your command prompt and provide the password when prompted. Upon successful login, you should see a shell prompt with your cluster name, something like this:
    MongoDB Enterprise Cluster0-shard-0:PRIMARY>
  3. Now, create the movies database and call it moviesDB. Utilize the use command:
    use moviesDB
  4. Create the movies collection with a few relevant attributes. Create the collection by inserting the documents into a non-existent collection. You are encouraged to think and implement collections with attributes that you...
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