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So previously we've seen how to create, read and update using MongoDB in the Mongo shell. And now
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it's time to look at how we would delete data from our collections.
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And again if I scroll down in this CRUD documentation we've got a section that tells us how to do this.
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And you can see that the two main methods we'll rely on is deleteOne and deleteMany.
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And this is an example of how you would use it.
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So you would say db.collection name.deleteMany or deleteOne and  in the filter you would specify
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which records you want to delete.
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This is a good opportunity to translate what you see in the documentation to actual working code that
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does what you want it to.
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I want you to remove this second record that we added which is the pencil record by reading and using
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the documentation on MongoDB.
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Pause the video now and give that a try.
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OK.
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As we saw over here all we need to implement is db.collection
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.deleteOne. And we're going to say db.products.deleteOne and then we're going to provide
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the filter to find the particular record that we want to delete which in our case it would be easier
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to just specify the id
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and in this case that's going to be equal to 2.
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So now if I hit enter then you can see that my request has been acknowledged and one record has been
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deleted.
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And now if we use that find method again you can see we only have one record in our products collection.