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MongoDB Update Pipeline Tricks
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Starting with MongoDB 4.2, you can use aggregation pipelines to update documents. Which leads to some really cool stuff.

For example, prior to this you could easily add sub-documents to an array using $addtoSet, and you could remove documents from an array using $pull, but you couldn't do both in the same operation, you had to send two separate update commands if you needed to remove some and add some.

With 4.2, now you can, because you can format your update as a pipeline, with multiple $set and $unset stages, which makes those things possible. However, since this is so new I had a really hard time finding examples of many of the things I wanted to do, so I started to collect some here for my reference (and yours).

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