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Create a Collection

If a collection does not exist, MongoDB creates the collection when you first store data for that collection.

You can create one and set some options:

db.createCollection('deptCollection', {autoIndexID : true})

The following example will create a collection representing the DEPT/EMP tables seen in the Oracle Sample Data.

Add department 10 and it's employees:

db.deptCollection.insert( 
 {
    deptno: 10, 
    dname: 'ACCOUNTING',
    loc: 'NEW YORK',
    employees: [
     {
        empno: 7782,
        ename: 'CLARK',	
        job: 'MANAGER',
        mgr: 7839, 	
        hiredate: new Date('1989-JUN-09'),
        sal: 2450
     },
     {
        empno:7839,
        ename: 'KING',
        job: 'PRESIDENT',
        hiredate: new Date('1980-NOV-17'),
        sal: 5000
      },
      {
        empno: 7934,
        ename: 'MILLER',
        job: 'CLERK',
        mgr: 7782,
        hiredate: new Date('1985-JAN-23'),
        sal: 1300
      }
    ]
   } 
 )