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Doug Bierer
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Doug Bierer has been hooked on computers since his first program, written on a DEC PDP-8, in 1971. In his wide-ranging career, he has been a professional contract programmer since 1978, having written applications in BASIC, PL/I, assembler, FORTH, C, C++, dBase/FoxBase/Clipper, Pascal, Perl, Java, and PHP. He deployed his first website in 1993 while living in San Francisco. He speaks four languages, has traveled extensively, and now resides in Thailand. He also spent some years doing system administration and TCP/IP networking. Some of his technical works include PHP 7 Programming Cookbook and Learning MongoDB 4.x (Packt), as well as Learning PHP and MySQL, Learning PHP Security and Learning Doctrine (O'Reilly Media).
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Performing simple queries

Command summary (discussed as follows):

  • db.<collection>.find({<filter>},{<projection>}).<aggregation>(): Returns only one or more documents based on the filter expression. The projection expression includes or excludes document fields. Aggregation is used to manipulate the final result set (for example, sort(), limit(), and so on).
  • db.<collection>.findOne({<filter>},{<projection>}): Returns only one document based on the filter expression. The projection expression includes or excludes document fields.

One of the most common operations on any database is querying the database for information, which will then form the basis of reports and information that might appear on a web page. In MongoDB the primary command to perform a query is db.<collection>.find(). There is also a variation db.<collection...

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Doug Bierer has been hooked on computers since his first program, written on a DEC PDP-8, in 1971. In his wide-ranging career, he has been a professional contract programmer since 1978, having written applications in BASIC, PL/I, assembler, FORTH, C, C++, dBase/FoxBase/Clipper, Pascal, Perl, Java, and PHP. He deployed his first website in 1993 while living in San Francisco. He speaks four languages, has traveled extensively, and now resides in Thailand. He also spent some years doing system administration and TCP/IP networking. Some of his technical works include PHP 7 Programming Cookbook and Learning MongoDB 4.x (Packt), as well as Learning PHP and MySQL, Learning PHP Security and Learning Doctrine (O'Reilly Media).
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