mongo show dbs code example

Example 1: mongodb show database command linux

show databases
show dbs

Example 2: mongodb show database command linux

show collections
show tables
db.getCollectionNames()

Example 3: mongo shell commands

show dbs # <=> Print a list of all databases on the server.
use <db> # <=> Switch current database to <db>
show collections # <=> Print a list of all collections for current database.
db.people.insert({name:"Ashwin",gender:"m"}) # <=> Inserts a new "person" collection with a new object in that collection
db.people.find(<any attributes or none>) # <=> Find all persons in the collection
db.people.update({name:"Ashwin"},{gender:"f"}) # <=> Updates the selected (1st parameter) person with new value(2nd parameter)
db.people.remove({name:"Ashwin"}) # <=> Remove where name is "Ashwin"
db.people.drop() # <=> Delete the "people" collection

Example 4: view mongodb database

>db.mycol.insert({
   _id: ObjectId(7df78ad8902c),
   title: 'MongoDB Overview', 
   description: 'MongoDB is no sql database',
   by: 'tutorials point',
   url: 'http://www.tutorialspoint.com',
   tags: ['mongodb', 'database', 'NoSQL'],
   likes: 100
})