Mongo Management Studio provides the functionality to copy a collection. Therefor 3 options are available.Mongo Management Studio provides 3 ways to copy a collection.
Copy a collection within a database
A collection is copied within the same database. Only the name of the destination collection must has be entered.
Copy a collection to another database on the same MongoDB server instance
The collection is copied within the same MongoDB server instance to a different database. The name of the collection is maintained and kept and therefore must not already exist in the destination database.
Copy collection
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into another MongoDB server instance
Copies the collection in into any database on the specified destination server instance of MongoDB. If this database does not exist, it will is created automatically created. Otherwise applies also here that . Here again, the collection still may is not allowed to exist in the destination database already.
If an authentication via a userSource is needed for the copy operation on the MongoDB server instance, the field "login database" offers the ability to specify the appropriate database , against which must be authenticated. Otherwise the to use for authentication. The authentication data can also be entered in specified within the connection string for the destination server.
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For this functionality is important to note that the naming conventions for MongoDB collections are complied with and the new name does not already exist in the database. |
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