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Is there a way to limit the number of records in a certain MongoDB collection?
Yes, you can use capped parameter along with max size. Following is the syntax −
db.createCollection("yourCollectionName",{capped:true,size:yourSizeInBytes,max:howManyRecordsYouWant})
Let us first create a collection with capped:true −
> db.createCollection("limitTheNumberOfRecordsDemo",{capped:true,size:200024,max:3}) { "ok" : 1 }
We will now create a collection with documents −
> db.limitTheNumberOfRecordsDemo.insertOne({"ClientName":"James Brown"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5cd9e601b50a6c6dd317adad") } > db.limitTheNumberOfRecordsDemo.insertOne({"ClientName":"Sam Williams"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5cd9e60bb50a6c6dd317adae") } > db.limitTheNumberOfRecordsDemo.insertOne({"ClientName":"David Miller"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5cd9e612b50a6c6dd317adaf") } > db.limitTheNumberOfRecordsDemo.insertOne({"ClientName":"Carol Taylor"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5cd9e61ab50a6c6dd317adb0") } > db.limitTheNumberOfRecordsDemo.insertOne({"ClientName":"Adam Smith"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5cd9e649b50a6c6dd317adb1") } > db.limitTheNumberOfRecordsDemo.insertOne({"ClientName":"John Doe"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5cd9e64fb50a6c6dd317adb2") }
Following is the query to display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method. Here you will get only 3 records from the above collection since we have set the capped with max size above −
> db.limitTheNumberOfRecordsDemo.find();
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5cd9e61ab50a6c6dd317adb0"), "ClientName" : "Carol Taylor" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5cd9e649b50a6c6dd317adb1"), "ClientName" : "Adam Smith" } { "_id" : ObjectId("5cd9e64fb50a6c6dd317adb2"), "ClientName" : "John Doe" }
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