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Since npyodbc builds on top of pyodbc, this reference contains only documentation about features introduced by npyodbc. Consult the pyodbc wiki for more information about base pyodbc features.

Cursor

An ODBC cursor for querying a database.

fetchdictarray(size=-1, null_suffix=None, target_dtypes=None)

Fetch a dictionary mapping SQL column names to numpy arrays.

Fetch as many rows as specified by size into a dictionary of NumPy ndarrays (dictarray). The dictionary will contain a key for each column, with its value being a NumPy ndarray holding its value for the fetched rows. Optionally, extra columns will be added to signal nulls on nullable columns.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
size int

The number of rows to fetch. Use -1 (the default) to fetch all remaining rows.

-1
null_suffix Optional[str]

If specified, a new boolean column named <column_name><null_suffix> will be included in the output, with values indicating which values in <column_name> were null in the original array. If None, no such column will be included.

None
target_dtypes Optional[dict[str, DTypeLike]]

If provided, this mapping between {column name: dtype} coerces the values read from the database into arrays of the requested dtypes.

None

Returns:

Type Description
dict[str, NDArray]

A dictionary mapping column names to an ndarray holding its values for the fetched rows. The dictionary will use the column name as key for the ndarray containing values associated to that column. Optionally, null information for nullable columns will be provided by adding additional boolean columns named after the nullable column concatenated to null_suffix

Notes

Similar to fetchmany(size), but returning a dictionary of NumPy ndarrays for the results instead of a Python list of tuples of objects, reducing memory footprint as well as improving performance. fetchdictarray is overall more efficient that fetchsarray.

See Also
  • fetchmany : Fetch rows into a Python list of rows.
  • fetchall : Fetch the remaining rows into a Python list of rows.