MongoDB Delete

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Deleting a Document

At some stage you may want to delete a document from a collection. The format is:

db.collectionName.deleteOne(query_criteria) /* deletes the first document found that matches the query criteria */
db.collectionName.remove(query_criteria) /* deletes all documents found that matches the query criteria */
db.collectionName.remove() /* deletes all documents in a collection (use with care!) */
db.collectionName.drop() /* removes a collection (use with care!) */

Delete Department 40

Department 40 has closed down:

db.deptCollection.deleteOne({"deptno":40})

Note, if the query_criteria only returns one document, remove() and deleteOne() will have the same effect.