Questions tagged [mongo-collection]
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How to select a single field for all documents in a MongoDB collection?
In my MongoDB, I have a student collection with 10 records having fields name and roll. One record of this collection is:
{
"_id" : ObjectId("53d9feff55d6b4dd1171dd9e"),
"name" : "Swati",
"roll" : "80",
}
I want to retrieve the field…

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How to copy a collection from one database to another in MongoDB
Is there a simple way to do this?

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Clone a collection in MongoDB
I want to clone a MongoDB collection and save it on the same server with a different name. So for example right now I have the following collections: demo1.categories, demo1.users and demo2.users.
I want to have a "demo2.categories" which is…

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mongo-connect error with mongo-connect(session)
After searching around about it, I can't find any solution or mistake in my code about this error. I've got my app.js files inside my node JS application with the mongo-connect declaration :
const MongoStore = require('connect-mongo')(session)
And…

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Can a MongoDB collection have inside it another collection?
I need to store a recursive tree structure. A linked list.
So all the objects are the same. Each has a pointer to a parent object and each has an array of child objects.
Can I store such a structure in Mongo.
i.e. A Mongo collection of parent…

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creating unique index in mongoDB
I am using a java program for mongo db insertion trying to create a unique index for a field. product_src is a field in my collection and I want to set it as unique index for avoiding the duplicate insertion. I am trying the following code but…

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How to merge two databases of mongoDB present in two different computers?
I am using mongoDB to store the data of a particular website. Since two of us are working, we are using our own computer for the job. Both the computer has a database website_data and a collection in that database webpages. Now for some analysis,…

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Create Collection in MongoDB Using Java
i want to create collection in mongodb using java.The below is the code i worked with.I can connect to database.But Collection is not happening..please help me
import com.mongodb.MongoClient;
import com.mongodb.DB;
import…

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How to view or modify collation options set on a MongoDB collection?
How do you modify the options that we set on a collection at the time of creation? And how do we view the options already set?
If we see the collation option for example, I create a collection like this:
db.createCollection("words", {collation :…

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MongoDB lookup Algorithmic Complexity
What is the big-o complexity of MongoDB lookup operation?
Say I have n records in my MongoDB collection 'A',
And n records in collection 'B', each B's document have foreign _id of A, and one specific tag eg "preOrder","directOrder", "pendingOrder"…

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MongoDb Update in PHP
I have one collection test_posts in which there are certain records. There is field called 'is_published' which has either 1 or 0 value. Based on which I am showing the content on end user side. I can show the content but for update there is some…

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Creating new Meteor collections on the fly
Is it possible to create new Meteor collections on-the-fly? I'd like to create foo_bar or bar_bar depending on some pathname which should be a global variable I suppose (so I can access it throughout my whole application).
Something like:
var prefix…

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How to add a mongo id from one collection as a foreign key in another collection
In my Spring boot application, I have collection of Todos and a collection of Courses. In the view of the application, I return the collection of courses and display whatever course I need. The Todos are stored as 1 list which represents all the…

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How to connect to remote MongoDB with mongo-connector?
How can I connect to a MongoDB cluster on Mongo Atlas using mongo-connector?
I have tried to connector to my cluster with the following commands:
First attempt
sudo mongo-connector -m…

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Using "from" as a kwarg key in pymongo's runcommand
I am attempting to use pymongo to clone a collection from a remote mongo instance, from the documentation cloning a collection requires the cloneCollection command,
{ cloneCollection: "", from: "", query: { } }
and to…

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