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.

Finding your MongoDB version

How to find your MongoDB version using Studio 3T.

Posted on: 17/05/2022 • Dj Walker-Morgan • 2 minutes

Date Tags: Getting It Right On DateTime

Date Tags are new in Studio 3T 2022.4. They are a simple and quick way to express and compare ranges of MongoDB dates and times. In this article, we show how you use them to control time comparisons better.

Posted on: 11/05/2022 (last updated: 08/05/2024) • Dj Walker-Morgan • 4 minutes

What’s a covered query in MongoDB? #Studio3T_AMA

What is a covered query in MongoDB? What makes them fast queries? How do you know you have one? And how do you make one? All these questions answered in this Ask Manatees Anything.

Posted on: 27/04/2022 • Dj Walker-Morgan • 3 minutes

What’s New in Studio 3T 2022.4 – Date Tags, Smarter Columns, Saving SQL Mappings

Studio 3T 2022.4 is going to change how you query for dates with the new date tags feature making it quick and easy to ask for a field in the #last20weeks. The new release also makes it simple to switch table views between different column layouts and lets users save and load their SQL migration mappings.

Posted on: 21/04/2022 (last updated: 28/04/2025) • Dj Walker-Morgan • 5 minutes

Date Tags

Date tags are placeholders for different date operations relative to when a query is run. Date tags make date fields easier to work with by saving you from having to perform calculations with the MongoDB Date() function. Studio 3T converts the date tags when the query is run into the appropriate MongoDB query, using greater than and […]

Posted on: 21/04/2022 (last updated: 27/02/2025) • Dj Walker-Morgan • 2 minutes

What is the fastest way to make a database connection? #Studio3T_AMA

Tired of digging out database connections from a long list? Try these tips for fast, faster and fastest MongoDB database connections from Studio 3T

Posted on: 30/03/2022 • Dj Walker-Morgan • 3 minutes

What’s New In Studio 3T 2022.3 – Free Edition

Studio 3T 2022.3 introduces the new Free edition which delivers essential 3t Features to users without needing a license. All this and other updates.

Posted on: 28/03/2022 (last updated: 28/04/2025) • Dj Walker-Morgan • < 1

Why do I see an error when I re-run an IntelliShell script? #Studio3T_AMA

What does it mean when you re-run an IntelliShell script and see an error about redeclaration? In this article, we’ll explain why and how to make those errors go away for good.

Posted on: 23/03/2022 (last updated: 27/08/2024) • Dj Walker-Morgan • 2 minutes

What is $setWindowFields and why is it so neat?

What is $setWindowFields? Well, $setWindowFields is a new Aggregation stage in MongoDB 5.0. In the most recent release of Studio 3T (2022.2), we added support for it in the Aggregation Editor. Why is it so neat? What it does is completely change what you can do with aggregations, literally opening a window on your documents […]

Posted on: 16/03/2022 • Dj Walker-Morgan • 4 minutes