AWS documentdb documentation change

Service: documentdb · 2026-03-31 · Documentation low

File: documentdb/latest/developerguide/skip.md

Summary

Added new documentation page for the $skip operator in Amazon DocumentDB, including description, parameters, MongoDB shell example, and code examples in Node.js and Python

Security assessment

This is a routine documentation addition for a database query operator ($skip) used for pagination. The change includes standard code examples with connection strings that contain TLS parameters (tls=true, tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem), but these are standard secure connection practices for DocumentDB, not new security features or fixes for vulnerabilities. No evidence of addressing a specific security vulnerability or incident.

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+[Documentation](/index.html)[Amazon DocumentDB](/documentdb/index.html)[Developer Guide](what-is.html)
+
+Example (MongoDB Shell)Code examples
+
+# $skip
+
+In Amazon DocumentDB, the `$skip` operator is used to offset the starting point of the query results, allowing you to retrieve a specific subset of the matching documents. This is particularly useful in pagination scenarios, where you want to retrieve subsequent pages of results.
+
+**Parameters**
+
+  * `skip`: The number of documents to skip before returning the remaining documents.
+
+
+
+
+## Example (MongoDB Shell)
+
+The following example demonstrates how to use the `$skip` operator to retrieve the second page of results (documents 11-20) from a collection.
+
+**Create sample documents**
+    
+    
+    db.collection.insert([
+      { "name": "Document 1" },
+      { "name": "Document 2" },
+      { "name": "Document 3" },
+      { "name": "Document 4" },
+      { "name": "Document 5" },
+      { "name": "Document 6" },
+      { "name": "Document 7" },
+      { "name": "Document 8" },
+      { "name": "Document 9" },
+      { "name": "Document 10" },
+      { "name": "Document 11" },
+      { "name": "Document 12" },
+      { "name": "Document 13" },
+      { "name": "Document 14" },
+      { "name": "Document 15" },
+      { "name": "Document 16" },
+      { "name": "Document 17" },
+      { "name": "Document 18" },
+      { "name": "Document 19" },
+      { "name": "Document 20" }
+    ]);
+
+**Query example**
+    
+    
+    db.collection.find({}, { "name": 1 })
+                 .skip(10)
+                 .limit(10);
+
+**Output**
+    
+    
+    [
+      { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 11" },
+      { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 12" },
+      { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 13" },
+      { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 14" },
+      { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 15" },
+      { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 16" },
+      { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 17" },
+      { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 18" },
+      { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 19" },
+      { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 20" }
+    ]
+
+## Code examples
+
+To view a code example for using the `$skip` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:
+
+Node.js
+    
+    
+    
+    const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
+    
+    async function main() {
+      const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
+      const db = client.db('test');
+      const collection = db.collection('collection');
+    
+      const results = await collection.find({}, { projection: { name: 1 } })
+                                     .skip(10)
+                                     .limit(10)
+                                     .toArray();
+    
+      console.log(results);
+    
+      await client.close();
+    }
+    
+    main();
+
+Python
+    
+    
+    
+    from pymongo import MongoClient
+    
+    def main():
+        client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
+        db = client.mydatabase
+        collection = db.collection
+    
+        results = list(collection.find({}, {'name': 1})
+                       .skip(10)
+                       .limit(10))
+    
+        print(results)
+    
+        client.close()
+    
+    if __name__ == '__main__':
+        main()
+
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+
+$setUnion
+
+$slice
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