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12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions source/faq/developers.txt
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Expand Up @@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ occur in collection names, so that the ``acme.user.history`` is a
valid namespace, with the ``acme`` database name, and the
``user.history`` collection name.

How do namespaces affect database internals?
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Namespaces do not affect database internals. Within a database,
collection namespaces have no hierarchy.

Namespaces are an organizational method intended only for the database
user. Namespaces allow users to group related collections. For example,
the collections ``blog.posts`` and ``blog.authors`` are grouped together
as blogs. This is purely for the user's benefit and has no affect on
database organization.

How do you copy all objects from one collection to another?
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12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions source/reference/glossary.txt
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Expand Up @@ -56,9 +56,15 @@ Glossary
databases.

collection
A namespace within a database for containing :term:`documents <document>`.
Collections do not enforce a schema, but they are otherwise
mostly analogous to :term:`RDBMS` tables.
Collections are groupings of :term:`BSON` :term:`documents
<document>`. Collections do not enforce a schema, but they are
otherwise mostly analogous to :term:`RDBMS` tables.

The documents within a collection may or may not have the same
structure. Any new document can add new fields to a collection.
Collection names can have a dot, and you may use this to simulate
a hierarchical namespace; however, the collection namespace for
each database is itself flat.

$cmd
A virtual :term:`collection` that exposes :term:`MongoDB`'s
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