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MongoDB - Insert Document

There are three main methods for inserting documents into a MongoDB collection: 1) The insert() method inserts a single document or an array of documents. 2) The insertOne() method inserts a single document. 3) The insertMany() method inserts multiple documents by passing an array of documents.

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MongoDB - Insert Document

There are three main methods for inserting documents into a MongoDB collection: 1) The insert() method inserts a single document or an array of documents. 2) The insertOne() method inserts a single document. 3) The insertMany() method inserts multiple documents by passing an array of documents.

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MongoDB - Insert Document

In this chapter, we will learn how to insert document in MongoDB collection.

The insert() Method


To insert data into MongoDB collection, you need to use MongoDB's insert() or save() method.

Syntax
The basic syntax of insert() command is as follows −

>db.COLLECTION_NAME.insert(document)

Example
> db.users.insert({

... _id : ObjectId("507f191e810c19729de860ea"),

... title: "MongoDB Overview",

... description: "MongoDB is no sql database",

... by: "tutorials point",

... url: "http://www.tutorialspoint.com",

... tags: ['mongodb', 'database', 'NoSQL'],

... likes: 100

... })

WriteResult({ "nInserted" : 1 })

>

Here  mycol  is our collection name, as created in the previous chapter. If the collection doesn't
exist in the database, then MongoDB will create this collection and then insert a document into it.

In the inserted document, if we don't specify the _id parameter, then MongoDB assigns a unique
ObjectId for this document.

_id is 12 bytes hexadecimal number unique for every document in a collection. 12 bytes are
divided as follows −

_id: ObjectId(4 bytes timestamp, 3 bytes machine id, 2 bytes process id, 3 bytes incrementer)

You can also pass an array of documents into the insert() method as shown below:.

> db.createCollection("post")

> db.post.insert([
{

title: "MongoDB Overview",

description: "MongoDB is no SQL database",

by: "tutorials point",

url: "http://www.tutorialspoint.com",

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tags: ["mongodb", "database", "NoSQL"],

likes: 100

},

title: "NoSQL Database",

description: "NoSQL database doesn't have tables",

by: "tutorials point",

url: "http://www.tutorialspoint.com",

tags: ["mongodb", "database", "NoSQL"],

likes: 20,

comments: [

user:"user1",

message: "My first comment",

dateCreated: new Date(2013,11,10,2,35),

like: 0

])

BulkWriteResult({

"writeErrors" : [ ],

"writeConcernErrors" : [ ],

"nInserted" : 2,

"nUpserted" : 0,

"nMatched" : 0,

"nModified" : 0,

"nRemoved" : 0,

"upserted" : [ ]

})

>

To insert the document you can use db.post.save(document) also. If you don't specify _id in the
document then  save()  method will work same as  insert()  method. If you specify _id then it will
replace whole data of document containing _id as specified in save() method.

The insertOne() method


If you need to insert only one document into a collection you can use this method.

Syntax
The basic syntax of insert() command is as follows −

>db.COLLECTION_NAME.insertOne(document)

Example
Following example creates a new collection named empDetails and inserts a document using the
insertOne() method.

> db.createCollection("empDetails")

{ "ok" : 1 }

> db.empDetails.insertOne(

First_Name: "Radhika",

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Last_Name: "Sharma",

Date_Of_Birth: "1995-09-26",

e_mail: "[email protected]",

phone: "9848022338"

})

"acknowledged" : true,

"insertedId" : ObjectId("5dd62b4070fb13eec3963bea")

>

The insertMany() method


You can insert multiple documents using the insertMany() method. To this method you need to
pass an array of documents.

Example
Following example inserts three different documents into the empDetails collection using the
insertMany() method.

> db.empDetails.insertMany(

First_Name: "Radhika",

Last_Name: "Sharma",

Date_Of_Birth: "1995-09-26",

e_mail: "[email protected]",

phone: "9000012345"

},

First_Name: "Rachel",

Last_Name: "Christopher",

Date_Of_Birth: "1990-02-16",

e_mail: "[email protected]",

phone: "9000054321"

},

First_Name: "Fathima",

Last_Name: "Sheik",

Date_Of_Birth: "1990-02-16",

e_mail: "[email protected]",

phone: "9000054321"

"acknowledged" : true,

"insertedIds" : [

ObjectId("5dd631f270fb13eec3963bed"),

ObjectId("5dd631f270fb13eec3963bee"),

ObjectId("5dd631f270fb13eec3963bef")

>

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