Friday, August 25, 2023

Mongo Shell Commands

 Following commands can be used in mongo db shell.

show dbs

  • list of all the databases

use shops

  • switch to a specific database or creates a database (shops) 

db.createCollection("products")

  • creating the collection (products)

show collections

  • display a list of all the collections 

 db.products.insertOne({"name":"prod_name1"})

  • insert a document into a collection

db.products.insertMany([{"name":"prod_name2"},{"name":"prod_name3"}])

  • insert many products in one command

db.products.insertOne({"name":"test_prod4","vendor":{"name":"vendor_1","address":"address_1"}})

  • insert many products in one command with multiple objects

db.student.insertOne({"name":"test_prod5",,"vendor":{"name":"vendor_1","address":{"address_line1":"line1","address_line2":"line2","city":"city"}}})

  • insert many products in one command with multiple objects

db.products.find()

  • retrieve all documents

db.products.update({name:"test_prod1"},{$set:{price:"120.00"}})

  • update a document in the "products" collection. updates first document only for name:"test_prod1" 

db.student.update({"name":"test_6"},{$set:{age:26}},{multi:true})

  • updating all document

db.student.update({_id:ObjectId("64dc5856e4cebb07084d8c45")},{$unset:{price:"120.00"}})

  • updating the document using object id and remove price attribute

db.teaches.update({"th_name":"test_th_2"},{$set:{student:[{"std_name":"test_1"},{"std_name":"test_2"}]}})

  • adding the Student object field

db.student.find({$and:[{"name":"test_4"},{"age":"40"}]})

  • AND operation. returns all objects with name =test_4 and age=40

db.student.find({$or:[{"name":"test_4"},{"name":"test_2"}]})

  • OR operation and returns name = test_2 or test_4

db.student.drop()

  • drop student collection

db.teaches.remove({"name":"t_name1"})

  • remove document name =t_name1

db.teaches.deleteOne({"name":"t_name2"})

  • remove one document with name=t_name2

db.student.aggregate([{$lookup:{from:"teaches",localField:"std_name",foreignField:"student.std_name",as:"studentDetails"}}])

  • aggregation operation in MongoDB to join the "student" collection with the "teaches" collection

db.mycol.find().pretty() 

  • return results in formatted way