Drop Collection in mongoDB

Easily we can drop collection in mongoDB using drop() command.

Syntax

Using Following syntax you can drop collection in mongoDB.


db.myCollection.drop()



Example


Suppose we have a collection "codefari", using following commands you can get a list of the collections of a particular database.


>use mydb

--Result
Switched to db mydb

>show collections

--Result
mycol
codefari



Now drop collection by Name



>db.codefari.drop()

Result
true


if the result is true it means collection drop successfully.


Again check the list



>show collections

--Result
mycol



You can see in above result codefari is missing it means collection "codefari" dropped successfully.