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In this post, we will see how to drop a collection using MongoDB.
The drop() Method
MongoDB's db.collection.drop() is used to drop a collection from the database.
Syntax
The basic syntax of drop() command is as follows −
db.COLLECTION_NAME.drop()Example
First, check the available collections into your database mydb.
> show collections
mycollection
posts
Now drop the collection with the name mycollection.
> db.mycollection.drop()
true
Again check the list of collections into the database.
> show collections
posts
drop() method will return true if the selected collection is dropped successfully, otherwise, it will return false.
Summary
The below diagram shows the summary of all the commands used in this post:
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