pandas to_sql for MS SQL - sql-server

Question

I'm trying to save a dataframe to MS SQL that uses Windows authentication. I've tried using engine, engine.connect(), engine.raw_connection() and they all throw up errors:
'Engine' object has no attribute 'cursor', 'Connection' object has no attribute 'cursor', and Execution failed on sql 'SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name=?;': ... respectively.
params = urllib.parse.quote('DRIVER={ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server};'
'SERVER=server;'
'DATABASE=db;'
'TRUSTED_CONNECTION=Yes;')
engine = create_engine('mssql+pyodbc:///?odbc_connect=%s' % params)
df.to_sql(table_name,engine, index=False)

Answer 1

This will do exactly what you want.
# Insert from dataframe to table in SQL Server
import time
import pandas as pd
import pyodbc
# create timer
start_time = time.time()
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
df = pd.read_csv("C:\\your_path\\CSV1.csv")
conn_str = (
r'DRIVER={SQL Server Native Client 11.0};'
r'SERVER=name_of_your_server;'
r'DATABASE=name_of_your_database;'
r'Trusted_Connection=yes;'
)
cnxn = pyodbc.connect(conn_str)
cursor = cnxn.cursor()
for index,row in df.iterrows():
cursor.execute('INSERT INTO dbo.Table_1([Name],[Address],[Age],[Work]) values (?,?,?,?)',
row['Name'],
row['Address'],
row['Age'],
row['Work'])
cnxn.commit()
cursor.close()
cnxn.close()
# see total time to do insert
print("%s seconds ---" % (time.time() - start_time))

Answer 2

Here is an update to my original answer. Basically, this is the old-school way of doing things (INSERT INTO). I recently stumbled upon a super-easy, scalable, and controllable, way of pushing data from Python to SQL Server. Try the sample code and post back if you have additional questions.
import pyodbc
import pandas as pd
engine = "mssql+pyodbc://your_server_name/your_database_name?driver=SQL Server Native Client 11.0?trusted_connection=yes"
... dataframe here...
dataframe.to_sql(x, engine, if_exists='append', index=True)
dataframe is pretty self explanatory.
x = the name yo uwant your table to be in SQL Server.