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1) Create new collection(table) in mongoDB>

Use createCollection() method to create collection in mongoDB>

> db.createCollection("employeeTable ")

{ "ok" : 1 }

Create new collection in different database in mongoDB>

> use testdb;

switched to db testdb

> db.createCollection("employeeTable ")

{ "ok" : 1 }

First we switched to testdb, and then created collection in it.

2) See list of all tables (collections) in database in MongoDb >

We can use following ways to see list of all collections in database in MongoDb >

> show collections

> show tables

> db.getCollectionNames()

You can see two tables>

employeeTable (Table which we just created above)

System.indexes (It is default table)

Note : (Table and collection are same thing in mongoDB),

(Record/Row and document are same thing in mongoDB)

SUMMARY>

So in this mongoDB tutorial we learned how to Create new collection(table) in mongoDB using createCollection() method.

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