MongoDB - Delete Documents

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In this MongoDB tutorial we will learn to delete documents.

Login to your MongoDB server and insert the following documents.

For this tutorial I will insert the documents in the subscription collection.

> db.subscription.insertMany([
  {
    "firstname": "John",
    "lastname": "Doe",
    "uid": 1,
    "accountstatus": "ACTIVE",
    "plan": "TRIAL15DAYS",
    "modifiedAt": null,
    "createdAt": new Date()
  },
  {
    "firstname": "Jane",
    "lastname": "Doe",
    "uid": 2,
    "accountstatus": "ACTIVE",
    "plan": "PLAN30DAYS",
    "modifiedAt": null,
    "createdAt": new Date()
  },
  {
    "firstname": "Jim",
    "lastname": "Doe",
    "uid": 3,
    "accountstatus": "SUSPENDED",
    "plan": "PLAN60DAYS",
    "modifiedAt": null,
    "createdAt": new Date()
  },
  {
    "firstname": "Alice",
    "lastname": "Doe",
    "uid": 4,
    "accountstatus": "ACTIVE",
    "plan": "PLAN1YEAR",
    "modifiedAt": null,
    "createdAt": new Date()
  }
])

Note! We are using new Date() to set the createdAt to current date time.

Delete one document

We use the deleteOne method to delete one document from a given collection.

In the following example we are deleting document having uid equal to 4.

> db.subscription.deleteOne({ "uid": 4 })

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