MongoDB Fundamentals

Appendix

1. Introduction to MongoDB

Activity 1.01: Setting Up a Movies Database

Solution:

The following steps will help you complete this activity:

1. First, connect to your MongoDB cluster that was set up as part of Exercise 1.04, Setting Up Your First Free MongoDB Cluster on Atlas. It should look something like this:

   mongo "mongodb+srv://cluster0-zlury.mongodb.net/test" –username <yourUsername>

2. Enter the preceding command on your command prompt and provide the password when prompted. Upon successful login, you should see a shell prompt with your cluster name, something like this:

   MongoDB Enterprise Cluster0-shard-0:PRIMARY>

3. Now, create the movies database and call it moviesDB. Utilize the use command:

   use moviesDB

4. Create the movies collection ...