Bulk Insert A Pandas DataFrame Using SQLAlchemy

Question

I have some rather large pandas DataFrames and I\'d like to use the new bulk SQL mappings to upload them to a Microsoft SQL Server via SQL Alchemy. The pandas.to_sql method,

Answer 1

Here is Simple Method

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Download Drivers for SQL database connectivity

For Linux and Mac OS:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017

For Windows:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56567

Creating Connection

from sqlalchemy import create_engine 
import urllib
server = '*****'
database = '********'
username = '**********'
password = '*********'

params = urllib.parse.quote_plus(
'DRIVER={ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server};'+ 
'SERVER='+server+';DATABASE='+database+';UID='+username+';PWD='+ password) 

engine = create_engine("mssql+pyodbc:///?odbc_connect=%s" % params) 

#Checking Connection 
connected = pd.io.sql._is_sqlalchemy_connectable(engine)

print(connected)   #Output is True if connection established successfully

Data insertion

df.to_sql('Table_Name', con=engine, if_exists='append', index=False)


"""
if_exists: {'fail', 'replace', 'append'}, default 'fail'
     fail: If table exists, do nothing.
     replace: If table exists, drop it, recreate it, and insert data.
     append: If table exists, insert data. Create if does not exist.
"""

If there are many records

# limit based on sp_prepexec parameter count
tsql_chunksize = 2097 // len(bd_pred_score_100.columns)
# cap at 1000 (limit for number of rows inserted by table-value constructor)
tsql_chunksize = 1000 if tsql_chunksize > 1000 else tsql_chunksize
print(tsql_chunksize)


df.to_sql('table_name', con = engine, if_exists = 'append', index= False, chunksize=tsql_chunksize)

PS: You can change the parameters as per your requirement.