Ways of connecting to Atlas

MongoDB University
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Hello, I’ve noticed that in the video we go into our cluster and use the command that is there in to connect using the shell, which is:

mongo "mongodb+srv://sandbox.xxxxx.mongodb.net/<dbname>" --username m001-student

I have seen in every lecture of every chapter that down below in the Notes we have this way of connecting:
mongo "mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@<cluster>.mongodb.net/admin"

  • Is this last one still working? what does go in cluster? “sandbox”? the “server id” (the one with xxxxx in the first one)?
  • What are the differences and how does that affect us?
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Both will work
Giving example for Class cluster:

mongo “mongodb+srv://cluster0-jxeqq.mongodb.net/test” -u m001-student -p m001-mongodb-basics

mongo “mongodb+srv://m001-student:m001-mongodb-basics@cluster0-jxeqq.mongodb.net/test”

Modify your Sanbox connect string as per above format

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Thank you! I finally did it

In my case I had to adjust the cluster name from “@cluster-” to “@cluster.”
Had to put a . instead of -