{"id":18694,"date":"2024-03-15T17:26:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-all-collections-be-queried-in-mongodb\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T13:55:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:55:19","slug":"how-can-all-collections-be-queried-in-mongodb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-all-collections-be-queried-in-mongodb\/","title":{"rendered":"How can all collections be queried in MongoDB?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In MongoDB, you can use the method db.getCollectionNames() to query all collections. Here are the steps to query all collections:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the MongoDB command line terminal or graphical user interface tool like MongoDB Compass.<\/li>\n<li>Connect to the MongoDB database.<\/li>\n<li>Retrieve the names of all collections in the database.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Additionally, if you are using MongoDB version 4.0 or higher, you can also use the following command to query all collections:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>db.listCollections()\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This will return a cursor object containing all collection information. You can use the toArray() method to convert the cursor object into an array for viewing the query results.<\/p>\n<p>Note: If you have not created any collections, the query result will be an empty array.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In MongoDB, you can use the method db.getCollectionNames() to query all collections. 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