Read SQL database table into a Pandas DataFrame using SQLAlchemy

Last Updated : 27 Jun, 2023

To read sql table into a DataFrame using only the table name, without executing any query we use read_sql_table() method in Pandas. This function does not support DBAPI connections.

read_sql_table()

Syntax : pandas.read_sql_table(table_name, con, schema=None, index_col=None, coerce_float=True, parse_dates=None, columns=None, chunksize=None)

Parameters :

table_name : (str) Name of SQL table in database.

con : SQLAlchemy connectable or str.

schema : (str) Name of SQL schema in database to query (if database flavor supports this). Default is None

index_col : List of string or string. Column(s) to set as index(MultiIndex). Default is None.

coerce_float : (bool) Attempts to convert values of non-string, non-numeric objects (like decimal.Decimal) to floating point. Default is True

parse_dates : (list or dict)

List of column names to parse as dates.
Dict of {column_name: format string} where format string is strftime compatible in case of parsing string times or is one of (D, s, ns, ms, us) in case of parsing integer timestamps.
Dict of {column_name: arg dict}, where the arg dict corresponds to the keyword arguments of pandas.to_datetime() Especially useful with databases without native Datetime support, such as SQLite.
columns : List of column names to select from SQL table. Default is None

chunksize : (int) If specified, returns an iterator where chunksize is the number of rows to include in each chunk. Default is None.

Return type : DataFrame

Example 1 :

python3

# import the modules import pandas as pd  from sqlalchemy import create_engine  # SQLAlchemy connectable cnx = create_engine('sqlite:///contacts.db').connect()  # table named 'contacts' will be returned as a dataframe. df = pd.read_sql_table('contacts', cnx) print(df)

Output : Example 2 :

python3

# import the modules import pandas as pd  from sqlalchemy import create_engine  # SQLAlchemy connectable cnx = create_engine('sqlite:///students.db').connect()  # table named 'students' will be returned as a dataframe. df = pd.read_sql_table('students', cnx) print(df)

Output : Example 3 :

python3

# import the modules import pandas as pd  from sqlalchemy import create_engine  # SQLAlchemy connectable cnx = create_engine('sqlite:///employee.db').connect()  # table named 'employee' will be returned as a dataframe. df = pd.read_sql_table('employee', cnx) print(df)

Output :

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