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Load Sample Data

You should have a locally running mongod before attempting this step.

Download the sampledata.zip file to your laptop, this contains a few different

Unzip and inspect the files in the sampledata folder, what do you see?

Use the mongorestore tool to load data into your mongod, and then shell in and inspect the data you loaded.

Hint: There is a directory called dump in the extracted zip file. You'll need the path to this directory when you run mongorestore. Additionally, for this exercise, you want to load all the collections from the zip file into your mongod instance.

You should see the following databases:

> show dbs
fruits    0.031GB
local     0.031GB
students  0.031GB
stuff     0.031GB
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