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Using Regular Expressions in Find
Let us consider a collection of “users”. To find all the users where the username begins with the character “a”, we would write the following in the shell db.users.find({"username":/^a/}); In MongoVUE,...
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Import data from MySQL (or from Microsoft SQL Server or Postgre SQL database)
This post explains how you can easily import data from MySQL to MongoDB using MongoVUE. MySQL import is available in the free edition of MongoVUE. Please note that you can also import data from...
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Data Visualization
A term I have heard many times lately is “Data is the new oil!”. We are recording data at an unprecedented rate (think blogs, social networks, forums, chat, email). Eric Schmidt recently said that we...
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Using ObjectIds
MongoVUE 0.5.0 introduces support for ObjectIds in querying and updating collections. In MongoDB shell, to search a collection named “cities” using ObjectId, you would use the following command:...
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Updating Collections
With the release of version 0.5.0, MongoVUE has the ability to Update documents in MongoDB collections. So let’s explore this functionality with an example. Let’s use “cities” collection. The first...
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Monitor your MongoDB servers
FourSquare is a popular website that uses MongoDB to store data. They make especially good use of MongoDB’s 2D indexes to provide geo-location features to their users. FourSquare recently had an outage...
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Yet another MongoDB Map Reduce tutorial
Background As the title says, this is yet-another-tutorial on Map Reduce using MongoDB. But two things that are different here: A problem solving approach is used, so we’ll take a problem, solve it in...
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Exporting data from MongoDB
While working with MongoDB you’ll often run into situations where you need to get data out of your server. MongoVUE has some built-in exporting capabilities that make it fairly simple to fetch data in...
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Establishing connections to servers and replica-sets using MongoVUE
MongoVUE connection manager makes it easy to create and store connections to your MongoDB servers. Establishing a new connection is simple – click on the add icon, you’ll get a blank screen as shown...
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Build MongoDB indexes visually using MongoVUE
The concepts of building indexes in MongoDB are very similar to those of relational databases like MySQL, SQL Server etc. You can read about these concepts and theory on this webpage. In this tutorial,...
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