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MongoDB Fundamentals

You're reading from   MongoDB Fundamentals A hands-on guide to using MongoDB and Atlas in the real world

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

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

Replacing Documents

In this section, you will learn how you can completely replace the documents in a collection.

Sometimes you may want to replace an incorrectly inserted document in a collection. Or consider that, often, the data stored in documents is changed over time. Or, perhaps, to support your product's new requirements, you may want to alter the way your documents are structured or change the fields in your documents. In all such cases, you will need to replace the documents.

In the previous section, we used a new database of CH05 which we will continue using in this section. In the same database, create a collection named users and insert a few users into it, as follows:

> db.users.insertMany([
  {"_id": 2, "name": "Jon Snow", "email": "[email protected]"},
  {"_id": 3, "name": "Joffrey Baratheon", "email":     "[email protected]...
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