Author: Dj Walker-Morgan

Dj has been around since Commodore had Pets and Apples grew everywhere. With a background in Unix and development, he's been around the technology business writing code or writing content ever since.

Search In… (aka Value Search)

About Search In… Search In… or Value Search is a wide-range text search on the values stored in a MongoDB collection, database, or server. By default, it scans all documents for text matches (or regular expression matches) in all field values and field names. Search In… scans embedded documents and arrays and shows you the […]

Posted on: 23/06/2022 (last updated: 04/04/2024) • Dj Walker-Morgan 7 minutes

What’s New in Studio 3T 2022.6 – Toolbar Customization

Small changes can make a huge difference to your day. In Studio 3T 2022.6, we have implemented one of those small changes, a frequently-requested feature. You can now easily manage the presentation of the ubiquitous Studio 3T global toolbar.  Headline features in Studio 3T 2022.6 Global Toolbar – The Global Toolbar is now configurable in […]

Posted on: 21/06/2022 (last updated: 28/04/2025) • Dj Walker-Morgan 3 minutes

The Value of a Regular Expression: #Studio3T_AMA

Q: I was using Value Search in Studio 3T, searching for “test” and I noticed the Regular Expression checkbox on the search window. Checking it made no difference to the results of my searches so what does it actually do? A: The reason you aren’t seeing any difference in your search results is because your […]

Posted on: 15/06/2022 • Dj Walker-Morgan 4 minutes

MongoDB World 2022 Announcements Roundup

This year’s MongoDB World conference saw the usual wide range of announcements, covering the broad sweep of the company’s offerings. Studio 3T is here for you, extracting the important information from a packed session of product reveals. Leading the keynote was Atlas Serverless, MongoDB’s multi-cloud pay-per-use database offering. This has now gone GA (Generally Available) […]

Posted on: 08/06/2022 • Dj Walker-Morgan 2 minutes

Meet Studio 3T at MongoDB World 2022

Back in 2020, MongoDB World went virtual as did so many events. In 2022, MongoDB World is back in-person and in New York and Studio 3T is there. Since 2020, we’ve introduced many new features and tools to Studio 3T. Building on our best-in-class Collection Views and Visual Query Builder, Aggregation Editor, Import and Export […]

Posted on: 07/06/2022 • Dj Walker-Morgan < 1

Better MongoDB Queries by Toggling

When people are building their MongoDB queries in Studio 3T, they may miss some Visual Query Builder features. Like it allows you to “turn off” whole parts of your query. You can then toggle in and out of the filtered and unfiltered results. It gives you a better view of your data so you can build better queries.

Posted on: 01/06/2022 • Dj Walker-Morgan 3 minutes

Fixing MongoDB $lookup aggregation

“Why can’t I match anything when I use $lookup?” is a regular question we get to hear. Almost as much as “Why does everything match when I use $lookup?”. Both scenarios are down to innate MongoDB behavior – and once we show you how you’ll never experience these MongoDB $lookup aggregation issues again. Let’s see […]

Posted on: 25/05/2022 • Dj Walker-Morgan 3 minutes

What’s New In Studio 3T 2022.5 – Load Tasks, Shell Progress, JSON Toolbar

The theme of Studio 3T 2022.5 is comfort. A more comfortable way of working with Loadable Tasks, progress bars for a quicker way of knowing what the IntelliShell is doing and, more discoverable features in the JSON editor. Headline Features in Studio 3T 2022.5 Load Tasks – We’ve made reusing tasks fit workflows better with […]

Posted on: 19/05/2022 (last updated: 28/04/2025) • Dj Walker-Morgan 5 minutes
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Expanding Academy 3T – Now with Aggregation

Announcing our latest expansion of the Academy 3T curriculum: a new course dedicated to MongoDB’s Aggregation framework. 

Posted on: 17/05/2022 • Dj Walker-Morgan < 1