I’ve been reading a lot recently on MongoDB and the use of incrementing an ID This article offers an in depth look: Taking this a little further, and from reading the findAndModify documentation I put together the following: db.sequence.findAndModify({ query: {"_id": "customer"}, update : {$inc : {"seq":1}}, upsert:true, new:true}) Here is what this command does: Finds (or creates) the “sequence”...
MongoDB – Incremental IDs
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