swat.CAS.read_sql_table

CAS.read_sql_table(self, table_name, con, casout=None, **kwargs)

Read SQL database table into a CAS table

This method calls pandas.read_sql_table() with the given arguments, then uploads the resulting pandas.DataFrame to a CAS table.

Parameters

table_namestring

Name of SQL table in database.

conSQLAlchemy connectable (or database string URI)

Database connection.

casoutstring or CASTable, optional

The output table specification. This includes the following parameters.

namestring, optional

Name of the output CAS table.

caslibstring, optional

CASLib for the output CAS table.

labelstring, optional

The label to apply to the output CAS table.

promoteboolean, optional

If True, the output CAS table will be visible in all sessions.

replaceboolean, optional

If True, the output CAS table will replace any existing CAS. table with the same name.

**kwargsany, optional

Keyword arguments to pandas.read_sql_table().

Returns

CASTable

See also

pandas.read_sql_table()

read_sql_query()

read_sql()

Notes

The data from the database will be pulled to the client machine in the form of a pandas.DataFrame then uploaded to CAS. If you are moving large amounts of data, you may want to use a direct database connecter from CAS.

Examples

>>> conn = swat.CAS()
>>> tbl = conn.read_sql_table('iris', dbcon)
>>> print(tbl.head())