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Insert sample data

In this tutorial you will learn to insert sample data to Percona Server for MongoDB.

MongoDB provides multiple methods for data insert . We will use a For loop to insert some sample documents.

  1. Run the following command:

    admin> for (var i = 1; i <= 50; i++) {
       db.test.insertOne( { x : i } )
    }
    

    If there is no test collection created, MongoDB creates when inserting documents.

    Output
    {
      acknowledged: true,
      insertedId: ObjectId("652567e5eedca48f97e1868f")
    }
    
  2. Query the collection to verify the data insertion

    admin> db.test.find()
    
    Output
    [
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e1865e"), x: 1 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e1865f"), x: 2 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e18660"), x: 3 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e18661"), x: 4 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e18662"), x: 5 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e18663"), x: 6 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e18664"), x: 7 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e18665"), x: 8 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e18666"), x: 9 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e18667"), x: 10 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e18668"), x: 11 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e18669"), x: 12 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e1866a"), x: 13 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e1866b"), x: 14 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e1866c"), x: 15 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e1866d"), x: 16 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e1866e"), x: 17 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e1866f"), x: 18 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e18670"), x: 19 },
      { _id: ObjectId("652567e4eedca48f97e18671"), x: 20 }
    ]
    

    You will have different _id values.

Now your cluster has some data in it.

Next steps

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Last update: 2024-04-26