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dwinston / mongo-novice-materials

Intro to MongoDB for researchers, using materials data
https://dwinston.github.io/mongo-novice-materials
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Explain that mongo has autocreate magic #7

Closed shreddd closed 8 years ago

shreddd commented 8 years ago

clarify that db.foo gets automatically created but this is a pymongo specific feature

novice python users may not get this idiom. explain that you just choose an arbitrary name (without spending too long on details).

dwinston commented 8 years ago

Same principle applies in the mongo shell / with javascript. Perhaps less of an issue b/c using mongoimport, so db/collection name will be set explicitly on the command line.