Yes, you can skip some documents using skip() in MongoDB. Use limit() to display how many documents you want to display after skipping some. Let us create a collection with documents −
> db.demo682.insertOne({FirstName:"John"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5ea462a804263e90dac94402") } > db.demo682.insertOne({FirstName:"Sam"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5ea462ac04263e90dac94403") } > db.demo682.insertOne({FirstName:"Bob"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5ea462af04263e90dac94404") } > db.demo682.insertOne({FirstName:"David"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5ea462b304263e90dac94405") } > db.demo682.insertOne({FirstName:"Adam"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5ea462ba04263e90dac94406") } > db.demo682.insertOne({FirstName:"Chris"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5ea462be04263e90dac94407") } > db.demo682.insertOne({FirstName:"Carol"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5ea462c404263e90dac94408") }
Display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −
> db.demo682.find();
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5ea462a804263e90dac94402"), "FirstName" : "John" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ea462ac04263e90dac94403"), "FirstName" : "Sam" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ea462af04263e90dac94404"), "FirstName" : "Bob" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ea462b304263e90dac94405"), "FirstName" : "David" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ea462ba04263e90dac94406"), "FirstName" : "Adam" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ea462be04263e90dac94407"), "FirstName" : "Chris" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ea462c404263e90dac94408"), "FirstName" : "Carol" }
Following is the query to skip 3 documents and display 2 −
> db.demo682.find().skip(3).limit(2);
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5ea462b304263e90dac94405"), "FirstName" : "David" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ea462ba04263e90dac94406"), "FirstName" : "Adam" }