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Kanthaliya
Kanthaliya

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Advance Mongodb queries - cheatsheet

Here are few less used but important Mongodb queries I use now and then. Will keep updating this page If I get to use different less used queries.

Copy database

db.copyDatabase("dbname", "dbnamenew")
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Drop database

use dbname
db.dropDatabase()
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Active operations

db.currentOp() or db.adminCommand( { lockInfo: 1 } )
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Kill operation

db.killOp(opid)
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Query stats

db.collection.find({"status":"single"}).explain( "executionStats")
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DB stats (in GB)

db.stats(1024*1024*1024)
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Create index

db.collection.createIndex( { status: 1 } )
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Get indexes on collection

db.collection.getIndexes()
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Create read only access for user on mongodb

db.createUser({user: "example_read",pwd: "12345", roles: [{role:"read", db: "dbname"}]})
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Get user roles on mongodb

db.getUser("user_name")
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Export collection

mongoexport --host=10.0.0.1:27017 --username=example --authenticationDatabase=admin --collection=example_mapper --db=dbname --out=example_mapper.json
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Import from collection

mongoimport --host=10.0.0.1:27017 --username=example --authenticationDatabase=admin --collection=example_mapper --db=dbname --file=example_mapper.json
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Dump mongodb

mongodump --host=10.0.0.1:27017 --username=example --authenticationDatabase=admin --db db_example --out dumps/
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Restore mongodb from dump

mongorestore --host=10.0.0.1:27017 --username=example --authenticationDatabase=admin  dumps/
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Shell connect with ssh

mongo --ssl --host docdb.amazonaws.com:27017 --sslCAFile rds.pem --username example --password asddasdasd
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