Pandas and MSSQL

connect_and_load.py

import pymssql
import pandas as pd

## instance a python db connection object- same form as psycopg2/python-mysql drivers also
conn = pymssql.connect(server="172.0.0.1", user="howens",password="some_fake_password", port=63642)  # You can lookup the port number inside SQL server. 

## Hey Look, college data
stmt = "SELECT * FROM AlumniMirror..someTable"
# Excute Query here
df = pd.read_sql(stmt,conn)

df.head(5)

requirements.txt

pymssql==2.1.0
pandas==0.14.0