MongoDB for Developers with Python Transcripts
Chapter: MongoDB's shell and native query syntax
Lecture: Deleting documents form MongoDB
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After you've inserted some documents and maybe updated a few, it might be time to get rid of the old ones, so let's talk about deleting them.
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So again, it's db.collection name. and we're going to apply delete operation. And here we can say I'd like to delete one of them,
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delete one, or maybe I want to delete a whole set of them, right, the delete one we're passing in something that should be unique,
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like the primary key, and delete many, maybe a bunch of them have the title, maybe there is a couple of additions
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like a kindle and a paperback version or something like that. So just get rid of all of them with the title being some title.
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So, delete one, delete many— pretty straightforward.