Delete specific record from an array nested within another array in MongoDB?

To delete specific record, use $pull operator. Let us first create a collection with documents −

> dbdeletingSpecificRecordDemoinsertOne(
   {
      "StudentDetails": [
         {
            "StudentName": "John",
            "StudentSubjectDetails": [
               {
                  "Subject": "MongoDB",
                  "Marks":45
               },
               {
                  "Subject": "MySQL",
                  "Marks":67
               }
            ]
         }
      ]
   }
);
{
   "acknowledged" : true,
   "insertedId" : ObjectId("5cf2210ab64a577be5a2bc06")
}

Following is the query to display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −

> dbdeletingSpecificRecordDemofind()pretty();

This will produce the following document −

{
   "_id" : ObjectId("5cf2210ab64a577be5a2bc06"),
   "StudentDetails" : [
      {
         "StudentName" : "John",
         "StudentSubjectDetails" : [
            {
               "Subject" : "MongoDB",
               "Marks" : 45
            },
            {
               "Subject" : "MySQL",
               "Marks" : 67
            }
         ]
      }
   ]
}

Here is the query to delete specific record from an array nested within another array −

> dbdeletingSpecificRecordDemoupdate({"_id": ObjectId("5cf2210ab64a577be5a2bc06"), "StudentDetailsStudentName" : "John"},
   {
      "$pull": {"StudentDetails$StudentSubjectDetails" : { "Marks":45 }}
   }, multi=true
);
WriteResult({ "nMatched" : 1, "nUpserted" : 0, "nModified" : 1 })

Let us check the document once again −

> dbdeletingSpecificRecordDemofind()pretty();

This will produce the following document −

{
   "_id" : ObjectId("5cf2210ab64a577be5a2bc06"),
   "StudentDetails" : [
      {
         "StudentName" : "John",
         "StudentSubjectDetails" : [
            {
               "Subject" : "MySQL",
               "Marks" : 67
            }
         ]
      }
   ]
}

Arjun Thakur

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Updated on: 30-Jul-2019

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