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COURSE

MongoDBforNode.jsDevelopers
AndrewErlichson,MongoDBUniversity
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COURSELECTURE

BasicQueryinginMongoDB
NotestakenonJune11,2014byEdwardTanguay

CRUD/Mongo/SQLterminology
Create=Insert=INSERT
Read=Find=SELECT
Update=Update=UPDATE
Delete=Remove=DELETE
MongoDB'sCRUDoperationexistasmethods/functionsinprogramminglanguageAPIs
MongoDBdoesnothaveaseparatelanguagethatneedstobeembeddedasstringsinside
codethatoperatesonMongoDB
asadeveloper,youmanipulatethedatabaseusingmethodsonobjects,similartoaobject
mappingwithRDBMS
thismakesdatabaseI/OwithMongoDBrelativelypleasantforprogrammers
theMongoshell
theMongoshellisaninteractiveJavaScriptinterpreter
payattentiontotheversionnumberwhenyoulogin
youcantypeinjavascriptatthecommandline

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uparrowretrievespreviouscommands
ctrlatofrontofline
builtinhelpers
help
helpkeys
commandcompletion
basicjavascriptvariableassignment

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BSON
fundamentalrecordtypeisanesteddictionaryofkey/valueassociations
javascriptobjects,becausetheyareindictionary/JSONform,canbesaveddirectlyinto
thedatabase
JSONwasinspiredbythesyntaxofJavaScript
MondoDBdoesnotusethisstringysyntax
http://bsonspec.orgBSONspecBSONisbinaryJSON,hasdatatypesthatgobeyond
JSON,e.g.datetime,32and64bitintegertype,etc.
intheshellweuseJavaScriptandwecanforcethetypesofnumbers
NumberInt(1)
NumberLong(1)
butbecarefulwithlanguagessuchasJavaScriptorPerlwhichcan'trepresentallofthe

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typesthatBSONcanrepresent
newDate()orISODate(...)
soyoucanfaithlyhandleallofthedatathatcomesoutofthedatabasebycastingitlike
this:

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insertingdocs
theshellhasavariablenameddbwhichisahandletothecurrentdatabase
collectionsarepropertiesofthedatabase,e.g.db.people.insert(doc)

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whenyouinsertadocument,itgetsauniquefield"_id"
differentfromotherdatabases,theprimarykeyisimmutable
youcouldsimilatechangingtheidbyremovingadocument,andinsertingitagainsoit
getsanotherid
_idistheprimarykey
_idisalwaysObjectIdmadeupofdate,machine,processidoncomputer,anda
counter,sotheseideasaregloballyunique
ifyoudon'tinsertan_id,thenonewillbegeneratedforyou
findingdocuments
db.fruit.find() willfindall
db.people.findOne({name:"Jones"})
thequeryispresentedtotheserverintheformofastructureddocument
thesecondargumentallowsyoutospecifywhichfieldsyouwanttogetback,trueorfalse

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_id isincludedbydefault
find
filldatabasesowecandosomequeries:

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db.people.find() toseethemall
type it iteratethroughtheresults
shelliskeepingtheseresultsopen
cursorisontheserver,willclearitin10minutes
dp.people.find().pretty() toseeresultsformatted
whenmultiplefieldsaregiveninthefirstparametersoffind(),thenitassumesAND
thesearecalled"querybyexample"queries
queryoperators
db.scores.find({score:{$gt:95,$lte:95}) (greaterthan,lessthanorequal)
&gt,&ltetc.canalsobeappliedtostrings
currentlysortsasciibetically
futureversionsshouldhavebettersupport
allcomparisonoperationsarestronglytyped
ifyoufilterbylessthan"A",youwillnotgetnumbers
generally,youshouldnotmixtypesinonenamedfield,e.g.store42inaname
herethethirditemwillnotworksincecomparisonsarecasesensitive

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queryingonwhetherfieldexists

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youcancheckforatype,usetheBSONspecifications,sostring=2:
do.people.find({name:{$type:2}})
youcanalsouseregexs:
allnamesthatendwith"e"

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