How to list all collection names in MongoDB Compass

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 collection

List all collection

we can list collection using the following on terminal/ Compass console

use myDB
db.getName() -- will show your database name 
db.getCollectionNames()

Here use myDB is is used to change the database and getName will populate all collection names. We can access the collection using db.< collection>.find() to list all json documents inside it.

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