Mongo Management Studio provides the functionality to copy a collection. Therefor 3 options are available.
Copy a collection within a database
A collection will be copied within the same database. Only the name of the target collection must be 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 has be entered.
Copy a collection to another database on the same MongoDB server instance
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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 target databasedestination database.
Copy collection
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into another MongoDB server instance
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Copies the collection in into any database on the specified destination server instance of MongoDB. if If this database does not exist, so it will is created automatically created. Otherwise applies also here that . Here again, the collection still may is not allowed to exist in the target 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 authentication data can be enteres in the connection string for the target to specify the appropriate database to use for authentication. The authentication data can also be specified within the connection string for the destination server.
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For When using this functionality is important to note that the naming conventions for MongoDB collections are complied with and the new you need to take care of MongoDB's naming conventions and make sure a database with the same name does not already exist in on the databaseserver. |