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So how can we create documents?

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Well you already saw that but we basically have insert one and insert many as alternatives.

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The important thing to recognize here is that insert one takes a single document with the values you want to

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insert and you can but don't have to specify an ID because if you don't specify one, you will get one automatically

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and insert many does the same but with an array of documents,

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so with a list of documents that gets inserted. Now there also is a third method, insert,

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it's a bit more flexible because it takes both a single document or an array of documents

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but I will not bother diving into that because insert was used in the past, insert one and insert many were

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introduced on purpose

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so that you have to be more clear about what you will do because with insert, your code if you are

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writing an application could have been a bit harder to understand because it was not instantly obvious

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if you were to insert one or multiple documents and it therefore might have also been a bit more error

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prone because you could have ended up in a situation where you expected it to insert multiple documents

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but you only inserted one. With insert one and many, due to them being fixed to one syntax,

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so one document or an array, you'll get an error if you enter something incorrect

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and they're also easier to understand if you see them in code,

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so we will focus on insert one and insert many.

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And then as I mentioned also on importing data, for that we'll have the Mongo import tool, we'll configure

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it a bit like you see here

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and I will explain what these options do and how it works.

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So with that, let's dive into inserting documents

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and let's quickly go over the basics again before I then talk about the a bit more advanced options or extra

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things you should know.