How to do bulk updates in MongoDB

MongoDB provides several ways to update specifically one document and bulk updating is done in almost the same way.


db.podcasts.insertMany([
{
"name": "Tech Over Tea",
"episodeName": "#75 Welcome Our Hacker Neko Waifu | Cyan Nyan",
"dateAired": ISODate("2021-08-02"),
"listenedTo": true,
},
{
"name": "Tech Over Tea",
"episodeName": "Neckbeards Anonymous - Tech Over Tea #20 - feat Donald Feury",
"dateAired": ISODate("2020-07-13"),
"listenedTo": true
},
{
"name": "Tech Over Tea",
"episodeName": "#34 The Return Of The Clones - feat Bryan Jenks",
"dateAired": ISODate("2020-10-19"),
"listenedTo": false
},
{
"name": "Cinemassacre Podcast",
"episodeName": "AVGN Fan Q&A, Starting a Band, and the Last Year - Cinemassacre Podcast",
"dateAired": ISODate("2021-08-10"),
"listenedTo": true
}
])


Let's update all the "Tech Over Tea" podcasts entry to be marked as listened to using update. In order to update multiple documents using update, we have to pass in an optional argument to tell MongoDB to do that.


db.podcasts.update(
{name: "Tech Over Tea"},
{$set: { listenedTo: true} },
{multi: true}
)


We can achieve the same result using updateMany.

db.podcasts.updateMany(
{name: "Tech Over Tea"},
{$set: { listenedTo: true} }
)


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