Deleting Documents from a MongoDB Collection


 

This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the items in the series, click here.

So far in this series, we’ve looked at different ways that you can add, retrieve, and update documents in a MongoDB collection. This article continues that discussion by explaining how to use MongoDB Shell to delete documents from a collection. Once you know how to delete documents, you’ll have the foundation you’ll need to perform the basic create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations in MongoDB, assuming you’ve been following along in this series. From this foundation,