Studio3T.com SSL Certificate Validation & Handling Security Improved
New to Studio 3T? Read our Getting Started guide. As of MongoChef 4.5 (now Studio 3T), we added support for MongoDB 3.4. The introduction of the 3.4 MongoDB driver has brought about quite a few bugfixes and changes one of which is an upgrade on the security of SSL certificate handling. Studio 3T will make [...]
What’s New in MongoChef 4.5
We are immensely excited to announce the release of MongoChef 4.5! This is one of our largest releases ever. We would like to explicitly thank you, our users, for your plentiful feedback and feature suggestions that continue to make MongoChef so much better. MongoChef 4.5 is chock-full of new features and improvements: Full MongoDB 3.4 Compatibility MongoDB Export to [...]
What’s New in MongoChef 4.4
MongoChef has just gotten even better! We are very pleased to announce that MongoChef 4.4 has been released! For this release, we have particularly focused on improving the overall user experience of MongoChef even further. Thanks a lot for all those suggestions! MongoChef is now Studio 3T. Learn more HERE! Undocking tabs Loads of [...]
How to Rename a Field in MongoDB Using Studio 3T
Every now and then, you may need to rename a field in MongoDB. Whether you need to do it for a single document, or perhaps for multiple documents, this task can be easily accomplished with only a few steps from within Studio 3T (formerly MongoChef). MongoChef is now Studio 3T. Learn more HERE! [...]
Studio 3T Now With IntelliShell
Studio 3T (formerly MongoChef) now supports full MongoDB shell integration - the real McCoy! Through Studio 3T's IntelliShell, feel the power of the real MongoDB shell at your fingertips in our beautiful MongoDB client, available for download now at https://studio3t.com/download/. MongoChef is now Studio 3T. Learn more HERE! No complex connection details [...]
What’s New in MongoChef 4.3.0
We have just released MongoChef 4.3.0! This release brings many improvements and new features you have asked for. See what's new below. MongoChef is now Studio 3T. Learn more HERE! Schema Documentation You can now generate beautiful schema documentation for MS Word: Explore documents missing a certain field When you spot [...]
Real-Time Server Status Charts for MongoDB in Studio 3T
This blog post demonstrates the MongoDB Server Status Charts feature of Studio 3T (formerly MongoChef). The server status charts show real-time updates of what's happening on a MongoDB instance: so you can easily monitor particular things of interest on production, development, test, or local instances. You can open a Server Status Charts tab [...]
MongoDB Schema Discovery and Exploration with Studio 3T
One of the great things that we love about MongoDB is of course that it's schema-less, which makes adapting your application to changing requirements a breeze. That said, your data will often have a fixed implicit schema, e.g. each document in your employees collection will likely always have a first and last name field. So, [...]
What’s New in MongoChef 4.2.0
Today we are very excited to announce that we have just released MongoChef 4.2.0! MongoChef is now Studio 3T. Learn more HERE! This release brings many improvements and new features you have asked for, for example: Improved SSH/SSL support We have significantly expanded our SSH/SSL support. We now support most ciphers, key exchange protocols, message [...]
How to Temporarily Enable/Disable Stages in Your MongoDB Aggregation Pipeline
With the release of MongoChef 4.1.1, we have a made it super-easy to quickly disable stages temporarily in your aggregation query. This often comes in very handy while debugging your aggregation query. To demonstrate this, let's consider the following simple aggregation query on the City of Chicago's publicly available housing database. Our aggregation pipeline consists of [...]
What’s New in MongoChef 4.1.1
MongoChef is now Studio 3T. Learn more HERE! Today we are very excited to announce that we have just released MongoChef 4.1.1! This release brings many improvements and new features you have asked for, for example: Disabling of aggregation pipeline stages In the aggregation tab, it is now super-easy to disable certain stages [...]
What’s New in MongoChef 4.1.0
MongoChef is now Studio 3T. Learn more HERE! Great news everyone! Today, we just released MongoChef 4.1.0! This release brings many improvements and new features you have asked for, for example: Refresh GridFS view automatically after sort-by option selection has changed Previously, when you changed the sort-by option in your GridFS view, seemingly [...]
How to Color Your MongoDB Connections and Databases in Studio 3T
Studio 3T (formerly MongoChef) now has a coloring feature that is aimed at helping you quickly differentiate visually between your live data and test data and avoid possible accidents coming from mixing these two. This is a short walk through on how to use this useful little feature. Let’s face it, we have all been [...]
How to Have a Side-By-Side View of Multiple Tabs with Studio 3T
This blog post is a visual walk through of how Studio 3T (formerly MongoChef) has implemented one of your most requested features, which is the ability to have side-by-side tabs. MongoChef is now Studio 3T. Learn more HERE! Very frequently, you probably encounter one of these use cases: You want to easily compare [...]
How to Prevent Your Connection From Dropping with Hosted MongoDB Instances
If you are connected to a hosted MongoDB instance, you may experience odd connection drops or timeouts. After a relatively short period of inactivity, you try to run a query from within Studio 3T (formerly MongoChef), but you are presented with a server error message box. If you try again, the query will [...]
Running Studio 3T (formerly MongoChef) on CentOS
When trying to run Studio 3T (formerly MongoChef) on CentOS, you may experience the following issue: java: cairo-misc.c:380: _cairo_operator_bounded_by_source: Assertion `NOT_REACHED' failed. ./mongochef.sh: line 11: 28030 Aborted (core dumped) $DIR/../jre/bin/java -jar $DIR/../lib/data-man-mongodb-pro-*.jar This is a general issue for all SWT-based applications on CentOS and is related to the Cairo 2D graphics library on [...]
Updated: MongoChef on OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
Studio 3T (formerly MongoChef), Data Compare & Sync, and Schema Explorer will work properly with the Public Beta 2 (Developer Preview 4) release of OS X 10.11 (El Capitan). Issues with the Public Beta (Developer Preview 3) release of OS X 10.11 were discussed in the following thread http://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/8776 MongoChef is now Studio 3T. Learn [...]
How to Install 3T Schema Explorer for MongoDB on Linux
On Linux, 3T Schema Explorer is distributed as a gzipped tarball (.tar.gz). We follow a common directory pattern on Linux in that 3T Schema Explorer’s root directory contains a “bin” folder that contains a runnable .sh file that starts 3T Schema Explorer. To install 3T Schema Explorer, open your shell and cd to [...]