SQL

Accessing data stored in databases is a routine exercise. I demonstrate a few helpful methods in the Jupyter Notebook.

pip install ipython-sql



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%load_ext sql









    



/Users/jbw/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/config.py:13: ShimWarning: The `IPython.config` package has been deprecated. You should import from traitlets.config instead.
  "You should import from traitlets.config instead.", ShimWarning)
/Users/jbw/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/utils/traitlets.py:5: UserWarning: IPython.utils.traitlets has moved to a top-level traitlets package.
  warn("IPython.utils.traitlets has moved to a top-level traitlets package.")



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%config SqlMagic.autopandas=True



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import pandas as pd
import sqlite3



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%%sql sqlite://
CREATE TABLE presidents (first_name, last_name, year_of_birth);
INSERT INTO presidents VALUES ('George', 'Washington', 1732);
INSERT INTO presidents VALUES ('John', 'Adams', 1735);
INSERT INTO presidents VALUES ('Thomas', 'Jefferson', 1743);
INSERT INTO presidents VALUES ('James', 'Madison', 1751);
INSERT INTO presidents VALUES ('James', 'Monroe', 1758);
INSERT INTO presidents VALUES ('Zachary', 'Taylor', 1784);
INSERT INTO presidents VALUES ('Abraham', 'Lincoln', 1809);
INSERT INTO presidents VALUES ('Theodore', 'Roosevelt', 1858);
INSERT INTO presidents VALUES ('Richard', 'Nixon', 1913);
INSERT INTO presidents VALUES ('Barack', 'Obama', 1961);









    



Done.
1 rows affected.
1 rows affected.
1 rows affected.
1 rows affected.
1 rows affected.
1 rows affected.
1 rows affected.
1 rows affected.
1 rows affected.
1 rows affected.






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later_presidents = %sql SELECT * FROM presidents WHERE year_of_birth > 1825
later_presidents









    



Done.






    Out[5]:






  
    
      
      first_name
      last_name
      year_of_birth
    
  
  
    
      0
      Theodore
      Roosevelt
      1858
    
    
      1
      Richard
      Nixon
      1913
    
    
      2
      Barack
      Obama
      1961



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type(later_presidents)









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pandas.core.frame.DataFrame



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con = sqlite3.connect("presidents.sqlite")
later_presidents.to_sql("presidents", con, if_exists='replace')

Through pandas directly



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con = sqlite3.connect("presidents.sqlite")
cur = con.cursor()

new_dataframe = pd.read_sql("SELECT * \
                 FROM presidents", 
                 con=con)

con.close()



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new_dataframe









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      index
      first_name
      last_name
      year_of_birth
    
  
  
    
      0
      0
      Theodore
      Roosevelt
      1858
    
    
      1
      1
      Richard
      Nixon
      1913
    
    
      2
      2
      Barack
      Obama
      1961



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type(new_dataframe)









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pandas.core.frame.DataFrame



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