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by cheald 5058 days ago
"use foobar" creates a new database called foobar.
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pjungwir 5057 days 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!
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cheald 5057 days ago
Nope. Collections are analogous to tables, and documents to rows.
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