MongoDB Delete Collection

In this chapter, we will see how to use MongoDB to delete a collection.

drop() method

db.collection.drop()Used to delete a collection from the MongoDB database.

Syntax

drop()The basic syntax of the command is as follows-

db.COLLECTION_NAME.drop()

Example

First, check in the available collections into the databasemydb.

>use mydb
switched to db mydb
>show collections
mycol
mycollection
system.indexes
w3codebox
>

Now delete the collection named mycollection collection.

>db.mycollection.drop()
true
>

Check the list of collections collected in the database again.

>show collections
mycol
system.indexes
w3codebox
>

If the selected collection is successfully deleted, the drop() method will return true; otherwise, it will return false.