Question

I have 10000 documents in one MongoDB collection. I’d like to update all the documents with datetime values that are 1 second apart for each document (so all the date time values are unique and are spaced 1 second apart). Is there any way to do this with a single update instead of updating each document in turn which results in 10000 distinct update operations?

Thanks.

Answer 1

No, there is no way to do this with a single update statement. There are no expressions which run at the server to allow this type of update. There is a feature request for this but it is not done so it cannot be used.