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MongoDB Intermediate

Indexes, schema design, relationships, and text search.

Intermediate MongoDB: indexing strategies, schema design patterns, embedding vs referencing, text indexes, compound queries, and $lookup joins. When schemaless starts asking hard questions.

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Intermediate7 lessons~5h
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Course content

Performance

  • ○Indexes & explain()Free18 min

Modeling

  • 🔒Embed vs Reference20 min

Relationships

  • 🔒$lookup: The JOIN You Didn't Expect20 min

Document Shape

  • 🔒Array Operators & Positional Updates18 min

Search

  • 🔒Text Indexes & $text Search18 min

Analytics

  • 🔒$match, $unwind, $group Patterns20 min

Project

  • 🔒Mini Project: User Activity Stats25 min