validate¶

validate¶

The validate command checks the contents of a namespace by scanning a collection’s data and indexes for correctness. The command can be slow, particularly on larger data sets:

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{ validate: "users" }

This command will validate the contents of the collection named users. You may also specify one of the following options:

full: true provides a more thorough scan of the data.
scandata: false skips the scan of the base collection

without skipping the scan of the index.

The mongo shell also provides a wrapper:

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db.collection.validate();

Use one of the following forms to perform the full collection validation:

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db.collection.validate(true)
db.runCommand( { validate: "collection", full: true } )

Warning

This command is resource intensive and may have an impact on the performance of your MongoDB instance.

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