Can anyone explain why when I run the mongo shell it is “connecting to: test”?
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By default, just running
mongo
will enter the shell and connect to the “test” database. Typingdb
into the shell should returntest
You can switch databases, with the
>use
command:Checkout the MongoDB docs on getting started with the
mongo
shell.