MongoShell Database Navigation

05 Dec 2012

If you are new to MongoDB you may need to discover the databases and collections (basically objects) on your MongoDB instance. For this easily you can use a GUI tool like MongoVUE. But in this blog post, I’m not going to describe GUI tools. I’m going to explain about MongoShell to navigate through database objects.

I can remember the first day that I used Linux. In that day I fed up with Terminal and gave it up. But now I think it’s cool!. Smile Somehow if you want to do something easier I still recommend GUI Tools.
First to execute those commands you should log into MongoShell. In windows mongo.exe.

How to take database List?

show dbs

How to check the database that you are currently using?

db

or

print(db);

How to change to a new database?

use <database name>

E.g:-

use AdventureWorks2012 

How to take the list of Collection in the current Database?

show collections

or

db.getCollectionNames();

How to take the list of Users in Database?

show users

or

db.system.users.find();

Tags

  • MongoDB
  • MongoShell
  • Mongo Shell