Author: Kirsty Burgess

Kirsty Burgess is a technical writer with experience in the financial, telecommunications, and software industries. At 3T Software Labs, she collaborates closely with UX designers, developers, QA engineers, and product managers, to gather information and produce clear, user-focused content, including in-app messaging, knowledge base articles, release notes, and blog posts.

Data Masking for MongoDB | Tool Documentation

Data Masking for MongoDB is the data masking tool in Studio 3T that lets you obfuscate collections on a field level.

Posted on: 01/12/2020 (last updated: 19/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 6 minutes

Reschema for MongoDB

Reschema is the MongoDB migration tool that lets you move an existing collection to a new collection that conforms to the schema you design.

Posted on: 23/11/2020 (last updated: 17/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 8 minutes

Query Manager

Query Manager keeps track of all your MongoDB queries in Studio 3T and allows you to organize your queries and scripts into folders. You can access Query Manager from the Collection Tab, IntelliShell, SQL Query, the Aggregation Editor, or the My resources sidebar. Displaying the Query Manager To display the Query Manager, click Load Query and […]

Posted on: 15/10/2020 (last updated: 13/02/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • 5 minutes

Export Wizard

Export MongoDB to CSV, JSON, BSON/mongodump, SQL, and another collection in a few clicks with Studio 3T’s Export Wizard.

Posted on: 14/10/2020 (last updated: 13/03/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • 13 minutes

Import Wizard

Studio 3T’s Import Wizard is the easiest way to import data to MongoDB from JSON, CSV, BSON/mongodump, SQL, and another collection.

Posted on: 16/09/2020 (last updated: 22/01/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • 8 minutes

Configure mongodump, mongorestore & mongo shell Executable Files

Here’s how you can point Studio 3T’s built-in mongo shell, IntelliShell, to use a different mongo.exe file when you’re still on an older MongoDB version.

Posted on: 14/09/2020 (last updated: 17/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 3 minutes

Visual Explain | MongoDB Explain, Visualized

Visual Explain shows the stages MongoDB took to execute a query in a flowchart, so you don’t have to decipher the JSON-formatted MongoDB explain() output.

Posted on: 14/09/2020 (last updated: 29/05/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • 6 minutes

Connection Manager

Whether you are using MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB Community Server, or MongoDB Enterprise Server, the Connection Manager in Studio 3T makes it easy to connect to a standalone connection, replica set, sharded cluster, or DNS seedlist.

Posted on: 28/07/2020 (last updated: 02/06/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 14 minutes

The quickest way to change a field type in MongoDB

Learn how to change a field type in MongoDB in a single document or across all documents in your collection.

Posted on: 10/06/2020 (last updated: 17/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 2 minutes