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.

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

MongoDB Indexes | A Complete Guide and Tutorial

Learn how to use indexes to speed up both simple and complex queries, which in turn will help you build and develop an effective indexing strategy.

Posted on: 08/06/2020 (last updated: 01/05/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 20 minutes

Aggregation Editor

Take a look at how to build aggregation queries stage-by-stage with the Aggregation Editor, starting with this example that uses $match, $group and $sort.

Posted on: 02/06/2020 (last updated: 27/02/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 10 minutes

MongoDB Password Encryption Using Cryptographic Key Store

Studio 3T offers a cryptographic key store to control access to credentials, ensuring that only authorized users have access to MongoDB connections with passwords. The cryptographic key store provides an extra layer of security by using a master password to encrypt stored keys and passwords. Only users with the master password can start and use […]

Posted on: 13/05/2020 (last updated: 21/01/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 2 minutes

How to Copy a MongoDB Collection to Another Database

Copy a MongoDB collection to another database in a few clicks using Studio 3T’s convenient built-in copy and paste features.

Posted on: 29/04/2020 (last updated: 19/06/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • 2 minutes