Inspecting the Mongo data

- [Instructor] Now we've got the data imported…into a MongoDB collection.…Before updating our code to work directly with mongo,…let's do some exploration using the mongo shell.…First, open up your terminal, start the mongo shell,…and to get a list of all the documents in the collection,…you can just run a find on the collection itself.…So that's db.tasks.find.…Great, but what can we do within that collection?…We can perform all of the CRUD operations,…create, read, update, and delete.…

Let's work through those here,…so you can see how this interface works.…The first, pretty simple task is,…find with matching a specific field.…Our data isn't very complex but you can get a good idea…of what's happening with these examples.…So if you use up arrow, you can get back…to the previous command,…and db.tasks.find({owner:"Kirsten"}).…Okay, well, as it turns out, all of the tasks…are owned by me, but it's still a good place to start.…

Notice that this command is actually functionally equivalent…to a more complicated expression.…