[16:09:01] <GothAlice> Even a less targeted search like https://lmgtfy.com/?q=mongo+restore+database+backup strikes gold on the first result.
[16:12:08] <GothAlice> Heck. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=I+created+a+mongo+dump+how+can+I+restore+it+please ← even rolling up like a grandmother works.
[18:16:44] <robertparkerx> how can I find all the columns in a collection?
[18:30:32] <GothAlice> That's a bit of a tough one. Even more so given there are no such things as columns. What you ultimately would require is a recursive process of "key collection", identifying the key/value "attribute names" from within the top-level document, and any embedded documents, or arrays of embedded documents, however deep the dataset may be.
[18:31:05] <GothAlice> Which may vary from record to record not at all, or completely, or anything in-between.
[18:38:25] <robertparkerx> It is odd. Someone said they added the column source_db to customer collection to separate the customerr