The tutorial provides the steps to create a collection and drop a collection using MongoDB. A collection is created in mongodb using createCollection()

Document: A document is single unit or data record similar to a row in RDBMS for storing information. A document is a JOSN object storing data in the form of key-value pairs.

Collection:  A collection is a group of documents for storing data similar to RDBMS tables. MongoDB contains multiple collections in the database similar to RDBMS which contains multiple tables in the database

Create Collection in MongoDB

The MongoDB provides the method – db.createCollection(name, options) to create a collection.

Create Collection Syntax:

db.createCollection(name, options)

Where

name is the collection name

options is the document to specify collection configuration

Argument	Argument Type	Argument Description
Name	String	Name of the Collection
Options	Document	Optional. Configuration details like Memory Size, Indexing
capped	Boolean	Optional.  Enables the Capped Collection which are fixed size collections.  When reached max size (in bytes) , capped collection overwrites the old entries
autoIndexId	Boolean	Optional. When enabled , creates index on _id field.
size	Number	Optional. Used in Capped Collection . When enabled, specify max size in bytes
max	Number	Optional. When Enabled, allows to specify max documents in the Capped Collection.

Lets execute a simple collection method call for creating the collection in MongoDB

> use oracleappshelpDB
switched to db oracleappshelpDB
> db.createCollection("oracleappsHelpBCollection")
{ "ok" : 1 }

The OK depicts that the collection – “oracleappsHelpBCollection” is created. We can verify by executing the show collections 

> show collections
oracleappsHelpBCollection
>

Let’s execute create collection method with the Optional arguments

> db.createCollection("oracleappscol", { capped : true, size : 10240, max : 1000 } )
{
"ok" : 0,
"errmsg" : "16: Resource device",
"code" : 8,
"codeName" : "UnknownError"
}
>

Note that we do not need to create collections in MongoDB as it automatically creates the collection when an document is inserted.

The below MongoDB Insert Document command shows the created collections.

> db.oracleappshelpDB.insert({"studentName" : "Mohit Sharma"})
WriteResult({ "nInserted" : 1 })
> show collections
oracleappsHelpBCollection
oracleappshelpDB
>

Drop collection in MongoDB

The MongoDB provides the method – db.collection.drop() to drop a collection.

The MongoDB provides the method – db.collection.drop(name, options) for dropping the collections.

Drop Collection Syntax:

db.Collection.drop()

Where

Collection is the name of the collection.

The below command show collections list down the available collections for the Database – oracleappshelpDB

> show collections
oracleappsHelpBCollection
oracleappshelpDB
>

Now , drop the collection – oracleappshelpDB from the database by executing the below command

> db.oracleappshelpDB.drop()
true
>