# pandas.read_sql_query

`pandas.``read_sql_query`(sql, con, index_col=None, coerce_float=True, params=None, parse_dates=None, chunksize=None)

  Read SQL query into a DataFrame.

  Returns a DataFrame corresponding to the result set of the query string. Optionally provide an index_col parameter to use one of the columns as the index, otherwise default integer index will be used.

  Parameters:

  sql : string SQL query or SQLAlchemy Selectable (select or text object)

  > to be executed.

  con : SQLAlchemy connectable(engine/connection) or database string URI

  > or sqlite3 DBAPI2 connection Using SQLAlchemy makes it possible to use any DB supported by that library. If a DBAPI2 object, only sqlite3 is supported.

  index_col : string or list of strings, optional, default: None

  > Column(s) to set as index(MultiIndex)

  coerce_float : boolean, default True

  > Attempt to convert values to non-string, non-numeric objects (like decimal.Decimal) to floating point, useful for SQL result sets

  params : list, tuple or dict, optional, default: None

  > List of parameters to pass to execute method. The syntax used to pass parameters is database driver dependent. Check your database driver documentation for which of the five syntax styles, described in PEP 249’s paramstyle, is supported. Eg. for psycopg2, uses %(name)s so use params={‘name’ : ‘value’}

  parse_dates : list or dict, default: None

  > - List of column names to parse as dates
  > - Dict of `{column_name: format string}` where format string is strftime compatible in case of parsing string times or is one of (D, s, ns, ms, us) in case of parsing integer timestamps
  > - Dict of `{column_name: arg dict}`, where the arg dict corresponds to the keyword arguments of `pandas.to_datetime()` Especially useful with databases without native Datetime support, such as SQLite

  chunksize : int, default None

  > If specified, return an iterator where chunksize is the number of rows to include in each chunk.

  Returns: | DataFrame

  See also

  `read_sql_table`
    Read SQL database table into a DataFrame

  `read_sql`

  Notes

  Any datetime values with time zone information parsed via the parse_dates parameter will be converted to UTC