3 ms·"use foobar" creates a new database called foobar.by cheald 14y ago"use foobar" creates a new database called foobar.pjungwir 14y agoAh, somewhere along the line I got the impression that in Mongo a "database" and a "collection" were the same thing, but that's not true. Glad to know this was just my mistake!cheald 14y agoNope. Collections are analogous to tables, and documents to rows.