Delete Many Documents

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You can delete more than one document using the DeleteMany() synchronous method or the DeleteManyAsync() asynchronous method on a collection object.

Example

The following code deletes all documents in the restaurants collection whose borough field value equals the word "Brooklyn".

Select the Asynchronous or Synchronous tab to see the corresponding code.

var filter = Builders<Restaurant>.Filter
 .Eq(r => r.Borough, "Brooklyn");
return await _restaurantsCollection.DeleteManyAsync(filter);

For a fully runnable example of the DeleteManyAsync() operation, see the DeleteManyAsync code sample.

var filter = Builders<Restaurant>.Filter
 .Eq(r => r.Borough, "Brooklyn");
return _restaurantsCollection.DeleteMany(filter);

For a fully runnable example of the DeleteMany() operation, see the DeleteMany code sample.

Expected Result

Running either of the preceding full examples prints the following results:

Deleting documents...
Deleted documents: 6086
Resetting sample data...done.

Additional Information

To learn more about deleting documents, see the Delete Documents guide.

To learn more about using builders, see Operations with Builders.

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