MongoDB - Drop a Collection

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To drop a collection in MongoDB, use the db.collection.drop() method.

In MongoDB, the db.collection.drop() method removes the collection from the database. If the collection exists, it will return true, if it doesn't exist, it will return false.

Drop a Collection that Exists

Here, we'll use db.collection.drop() to drop a collection that exists.

First, let's quickly check to see which collections we have in our music database:

Results:

artists
musicians
producers

OK, so we'll delete the artists collection.

Resulting message:

true

So the collection was dropped. We can take another quick look to see which collections we have now:

Results:

musicians
producers

Attempt to Drop a Collection that doesn't Exist

So now that there's no longer an artists collection in our database, let's try to drop it and see what message we get:

Resulting message:

false

It returned false because the collection doesn't exist.

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