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MongoDB Fundamentals

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839210648
Pages 748 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (4):
Amit Phaltankar Amit Phaltankar
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Juned Ahsan Juned Ahsan
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Michael Harrison Michael Harrison
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Liviu Nedov Liviu Nedov
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface
1. Introduction to MongoDB 2. Documents and Data Types 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

Deleting Documents

In this section, we will see how to remove the documents from a collection. To delete one or more documents from a collection, we have to use one of the various delete functions provided by MongoDB. Each of these functions has different behaviors and purposes. To delete documents from a collection, we have to use one of the delete functions and provide a query condition to specify which documents should be deleted. Let's take a look at this in detail.

Deleting Using deleteOne()

As the name suggests, the function deleteOne() is used to delete a single document from a collection. It accepts a document representing a query condition. Upon successful execution, it returns a document containing the total number of documents deleted (represented by the field deletedCount) and whether the operation was confirmed (given by the field acknowledged). However, as the method deletes only one document, the value of deletedCount is always one. If the given query condition...

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