MongoDB can be used locally or hosted on cloud , in any case MongoDB Compass is a great tool for managing collections.
Compass come with a console, which you can use manipulate docs. Let’s learn how to explore and delete documents in a collection
Delete all documents
we can delete all documents using the following on terminal/ Compass console
use myDB
db.users.find() -- list all users docs
db.users.deleteMany({})
db.users.find() -- check again
Here myDB is my Database and users is one of collection inside it. You can also use filter to delete many documents, for example delemany({uid:1001})
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