Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Empowering you to understand your world

MongoDB Tutorial: How To Read From A MongoDB Database

By Nicholas Brown – Follow me on Twitter.

<< Back To Getting Started With MongoDB

MongoDB CRUD Operations: How To Find Records In A MongoDB Database

One way to find back our avocado record is to use the db.collection.find(); command as shown below.

db.fruits.find();

That command will find all documents (records) in the ‘fruits’ collection, because the brackets are empty. Currently, there is only one record in our fruits collection, and that’s fine for now. Let’s keep things short and simple until you get more comfortable with MongoDB.

You could have typed {Name: ‘Avocado’} between the brackets if you wanted to search only for documents with ‘Avocado’ in the name field.

The first (blank) MongoDB find query is equivalent to the following SQL query:

SELECT * FROM fruits;

Leave a Reply

Subscribe to our newsletter
Get notified when new content is published