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.

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

Working with MongoDB Collections: CRUD, Count, Sort, Limit Collection Size & More

New to MongoDB? Check out our helpful beginner’s guide for the basics of creating, modifying, deleting and analyzing MongoDB collections.

Posted on: 21/02/2020 (last updated: 17/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 5 minutes

SQL Query

SQL Query makes it possible to write SQL expressions and joins to query MongoDB.

Posted on: 18/02/2020 (last updated: 13/02/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • 12 minutes

How to Insert, Update, and Restore MongoDB Documents

A guide on how to perform CRUD operations on documents in MongoDB.

Posted on: 14/02/2020 (last updated: 28/10/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • 8 minutes

Export MongoDB to SQL in 5 steps

How to export MongoDB to SQL in five steps using Studio 3T’s MongoDB to SQL Migration feature.

Posted on: 03/06/2019 (last updated: 17/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 3 minutes

MongoDB to SQL Migration

MongoDB to SQL Migration makes it possible to export single or multiple MongoDB collections to SQL, and configure how fields should map to SQL tables and columns before the export is run.

Posted on: 22/05/2019 (last updated: 16/04/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • 9 minutes