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0 pointscheald13y ago0 comments

"use foobar" creates a new database called foobar.

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Ah, somewhere along the line I got the impression that in Mongo a "database" and a "collection" were the same thing, but that's not true. Glad to know this was just my mistake!

chealdOP13y ago

Nope. Collections are analogous to tables, and documents to rows.

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pjungwir13y ago

Ah, somewhere along the line I got the impression that in Mongo a "database" and a "collection" were the same thing, but that's not true. Glad to know this was just my mistake!

chealdOP13y ago

Nope. Collections are analogous to tables, and documents to rows.

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