How to convert SQL Query result to PANDAS Data Str

Question

Any help on this problem will be greatly appreciated.

So basically I want to run a query to my SQL database and store the returned data as Pandas data structure.

I have attached code for query.

I am reading the documentation on Pandas, but I have problem to identify the return type of my query.

I tried to print the query result, but it doesn't give any useful information.

Thanks!!!!

from sqlalchemy import create_engine

engine2 = create_engine('mysql://THE DATABASE I AM ACCESSING')
connection2 = engine2.connect()
dataid = 1022
resoverall = connection2.execute("
  SELECT 
      sum(BLABLA) AS BLA,
      sum(BLABLABLA2) AS BLABLABLA2,
      sum(SOME_INT) AS SOME_INT,
      sum(SOME_INT2) AS SOME_INT2,
      100*sum(SOME_INT2)/sum(SOME_INT) AS ctr,
      sum(SOME_INT2)/sum(SOME_INT) AS cpc
   FROM daily_report_cooked
   WHERE campaign_id = '%s'", %dataid)

So I sort of want to understand what's the format/datatype of my variable "resoverall" and how to put it with PANDAS data structure.

Answer 1

Edit 2014-09-30:

pandas now has a read_sql function. You definitely want to use that instead.

Original answer:

I can't help you with SQLAlchemy -- I always use pyodbc, MySQLdb, or psychopg2 as needed. But when doing so, a function as simple as the one below tends to suit my needs:

import decimal

import pydobc
import numpy as np
import pandas

cnn, cur = myConnectToDBfunction()
cmd = "SELECT * FROM myTable"
cur.execute(cmd)
dataframe = __processCursor(cur, dataframe=True)

def __processCursor(cur, dataframe=False, index=None):
    '''
    Processes a database cursor with data on it into either
    a structured numpy array or a pandas dataframe.

    input:
    cur - a pyodbc cursor that has just received data
    dataframe - bool. if false, a numpy record array is returned
                if true, return a pandas dataframe
    index - list of column(s) to use as index in a pandas dataframe
    '''
    datatypes = []
    colinfo = cur.description
    for col in colinfo:
        if col[1] == unicode:
            datatypes.append((col[0], 'U%d' % col[3]))
        elif col[1] == str:
            datatypes.append((col[0], 'S%d' % col[3]))
        elif col[1] in [float, decimal.Decimal]:
            datatypes.append((col[0], 'f4'))
        elif col[1] == datetime.datetime:
            datatypes.append((col[0], 'O4'))
        elif col[1] == int:
            datatypes.append((col[0], 'i4'))

    data = []
    for row in cur:
        data.append(tuple(row))

    array = np.array(data, dtype=datatypes)
    if dataframe:
        output = pandas.DataFrame.from_records(array)

        if index is not None:
            output = output.set_index(index)

    else:
        output = array

    return output

Answer 2

MySQL Connector

For those that works with the mysql connector you can use this code as a start. (Thanks to @Daniel Velkov)

Used refs:

• Querying Data Using Connector/Python
• Connecting to MYSQL with Python in 3 steps

---

import pandas as pd
import mysql.connector

# Setup MySQL connection
db = mysql.connector.connect(
    host="<IP>",              # your host, usually localhost
    user="<USER>",            # your username
    password="<PASS>",        # your password
    database="<DATABASE>"     # name of the data base
)   

# You must create a Cursor object. It will let you execute all the queries you need
cur = db.cursor()

# Use all the SQL you like
cur.execute("SELECT * FROM <TABLE>")

# Put it all to a data frame
sql_data = pd.DataFrame(cur.fetchall())
sql_data.columns = cur.column_names

# Close the session
db.close()

# Show the data
print(sql_data.head())

Answer 3

Here's the code I use. Hope this helps.

import pandas as pd
from sqlalchemy import create_engine

def getData():
  # Parameters
  ServerName = "my_server"
  Database = "my_db"
  UserPwd = "user:pwd"
  Driver = "driver=SQL Server Native Client 11.0"

  # Create the connection
  engine = create_engine('mssql+pyodbc://' + UserPwd + '@' + ServerName + '/' + Database + "?" + Driver)

  sql = "select * from mytable"
  df = pd.read_sql(sql, engine)
  return df

df2 = getData()
print(df2)

Answer 4

1. Using MySQL-connector-python

# pip install mysql-connector-python

import mysql.connector
import pandas as pd

mydb = mysql.connector.connect(
    host = 'host',
    user = 'username',
    passwd = 'pass',
    database = 'db_name'
)
query = 'select * from table_name'
df = pd.read_sql(query, con = mydb)
print(df)

2. Using SQLAlchemy

# pip install pymysql
# pip install sqlalchemy

import pandas as pd
import sqlalchemy

engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine('mysql+pymysql://username:password@localhost:3306/db_name')

query = '''
select * from table_name
'''
df = pd.read_sql_query(query, engine)
print(df)

Answer 5

If the result type is ResultSet, you should convert it to dictionary first. Then the DataFrame columns will be collected automatically.

This works on my case:

df = pd.DataFrame([dict(r) for r in resoverall])