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Practical shortcuts and patterns for everyday MongoDB work.

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Aggregation Framework
World Cup: Finding the Goal with $match
With the World Cup starting this week there are going to be a lot of matches to watch for the next month or so and there will hopefully be a lot of goals as well!
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Indexing
A (MongoDB) New Year’s Resolution
Another New Year. Another reset. Another wave of optimism!
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Administration
Full-Text Search in MongoDB with Relevance Scores
Do you know about MongoDB ? Imagine we are building an app and want users to search by ingredients or dish names (like chocolate or zucchini bread) and get the…
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Administration
Clean Up Old Data Automatically with MongoDB TTL Indexes
With Big Data, comes well … a lot of data. But what if some of that data is only really useful within a certain timeframe?
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Querying
MongoDB Arrays: Using Operators
MongoDB offers a versatile and powerful way to work with using field query operators. Arrays are commonly used to store various types of data, and MongoDB’s…
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Querying
MongoDB’s “Hidden” Index Feature
Indexes are crucial for optimizing query performance, but they can also be very costly to create (meaning they can take a lot of CPU, especially if built from…
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Replica Sets
Replica Sets: Member Roles and Types
MongoDB replica sets are a powerful way to ensure high availability and data redundancy in your database environment.
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