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Optimizing Query Results: Limit and Skip

Explore how to optimize your MongoDB queries by applying the limit and skip methods. Understand how to restrict the number of documents returned and how to skip specific records to efficiently manage large datasets and build paginated queries.

Limiting results in MongoDB

The .find() method returns all the matching documents that satisfy the provided query criteria. While this course's database is relatively small, real-world databases can contain thousands or even millions of documents. Imagine receiving thousands of documents, where only the top 10 records were required. To resolve this, MongoDB provides two methods to control the number of documents: .limit() and .skip() methods. ...