MongoDB with Async Python Transcripts
Chapter: Setting Up Your Computer
Lecture: Studio 3T GUI
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So far what you've downloaded and installed will be the Mongo shell and another one, an older more legacy style shell to talk to and query MongoDB.
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Technically you could do everything there, but I strongly, strongly recommend getting some sort of GUI tool to work with MongoDB when you're trying to get a quick overview or work with,
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You know, look at a table, see what its indexes are, and then try to explain those queries
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back to you in a nice concise way as we'll be doing in say the performance section. So let's go ahead and download and install Studio 3T free.
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So Studio 3T is a fancy paid tool that you can use to talk to MongoDB if you have it or want to get it, there's a trial for it, you're welcome to.
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But we're not using that for this course, we're just using the free edition. So here you can see I'm downloading Studio 3T for Mac.
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Notice there is a drop down to choose either Intel or Apple Silicon. Make sure you get the right platform there, but
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it also supports Windows and Linux as well. So you should be good to go. Just follow the URL here and download and install this.
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It's a simple application, but I think you'll find it really valuable for working with the database and exploring our data when we're not writing code.