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Sep 062011
 

Select a document in MongoDB

Answer:

To select (find) a document in MongoDB, you can use the following syntax in the mongodb Interactive shell.

use my_db
db.users.find({name:"peter"})

You need to switch to the current database (e.g. my_db) and then execute your select statement.

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