Introduction In this short step-by-step tutorial we’ll show you how to search for specific text within a collction of documents using regex or Regular Expressions. Regular Expressions are a super useful text pattern matching functionality that every programmer should be familiar with. The syntax is hard to remember but we hope this article will give … Continued
Introduction Maybe you misnamed a field in an entire collection or want to update so it’s more intuitive for your development team. Doing this in a relational database is a little bit simler because all you have to do is update the column name ( and update all your queries to match ) but with … Continued
Introduction Updating a record is a basic CRUD method of any database technology and is extremely important to familiarize yourself with it. If your application needs to update the user’s address, phone, or credit card information these would all by typical examples of an update operation. An update is not creating a record but modifying … Continued
Introduction It is extremely common to want to your query data to be ordered by when it was inserted. In a lot of situations the most recent data is the most relevant data so this type of query happens frequently in web applications. For example if your web application lists the credit cards that have … Continued
Introduction Most shells in Linux, OSX, or Windows show a prompt with some info like the current user, current direcory, or computer name like so: 1ComputerName:currentFolder myuser$ But the MongoDB shell by default gives you none of this context information. All it gives you is: 1> For users working in MongoDB shell some context information … Continued
Introduction If you’re working with MongoDB through the shell you may find your eyes trying to sort through unreadable and jumbled data. You might already know but adding .pretty() command formats the results in a way that makes them much more readable. We asked ourselves how we can make this the default instead of having … Continued
Introduction When you start the MongoDB service it defaults to using the test database which can be an annoyance because you have to switch over to the database you are working with every time. We encountered this annoyance ourselves and wondered if there was a way that it could default to a database that we … Continued
Introduction For decades, relational database management systems such as MySQL have served as the basis for countless enterprise applications. However, today’s organizations face different challenges than their predecessors, which means they need to find better ways to store and access their data. Enter a new generation of document-oriented, or NosQL, databases, with MongoDB standing out … Continued
Introduction If you’re working with data stored in MongoDB, you’ll probably need to access the database from Python. Luckily the MongoDB client library makes this task a simple one, allowing you to connect to MongoDB with just a few lines of code. In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll explain how to connect Python to MongoDB using … Continued
Introduction Dropping a collection in MongoDB is very common but sometimes we found ourselves wanting to delete all documents in a collection without deleting the collection itself. This way we wouldn’t have to recreate the collection. If you find yourself in this same predicament please read on as we will go through a few options … Continued
