Reading excel file to dataframe and inserting records to SQL table using SQLAlchemy
import pandas as pd import pyodbc as db import sqlalchemy, urllib file_directory = 'path to excel file' # generate sqlalchemy engine params = urllib.parse.quote_plus('SQL SERVER CONNECTION STRING') engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine("mssql+pyodbc:///?odbc_connect=%s" % params, fast_executemany=True) # print(df.info()) # print (df.columns) def main(): try: print ('inserting excel into sql') df = pd.read_excel(file_directory) # add column before inserting records to db df['file_name'] = os.path.basename(file_directory) df['create_by'] = 'script name' df.to_sql('Table Name', con = engine, if_exists = 'append', index=False ) print ('successfully imported sheet!') except db.Error as ex: print (ex) if __name__ == '__main__': main()