Example: Create teradataml DataFrame on NOS foreign table in CSV data format - Teradata Package for Python

Teradata® Package for Python User Guide

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Assume that the following foreign table has been created on CSV data in Amazon S3 bucket:
CREATE FOREIGN TABLE riverflowcsv
, EXTERNAL SECURITY DEFINER TRUSTED AUTH_OBJECT
(
  Location VARCHAR(2048) CHARACTER SET UNICODE CASESPECIFIC,
  PAYLOAD DATASET INLINE LENGTH 64000 STORAGE FORMAT CSV)
USING
(
  LOCATION('/s3/s3.amazonaws.com/td-usgs/CSVDATA/')
  PATHPATTERN  ('$data/$siteno/$year/$month/$day')
);
  • Create a dataframe on foreign table.
    # Create dataframe on foreign table which contains data in CSV format on S3
    >>> riverflow = DataFrame.from_table("riverflowcsv")
  • Display the columns in the DataFrame.
    # As seen from create table statement, table has two columns 'Location' and 'Payload'
    >>> riverflow.columns
    ['Location', 'Payload']
  • Check the types of the columns.
    # Let's check their types
    >>> riverflow.dtypes
    Location    str
    Payload     str
  • Print the content of the table.
    # Let's print the DataFrame.
    # Equivalent SQL: 
    #      SELECT * FROM riverflow
    >>> riverflow.head().to_pandas()
    	Location			                                  PAYLOAD
    0	/S3/s3.amazonaws.com/td-usgs/CSVDATA/09380000/...	Temp,Flow,site_no,datetime,Conductance,Precipi...
    1	/S3/s3.amazonaws.com/td-usgs/CSVDATA/09380000/...	Temp,Flow,site_no,datetime,Conductance,Precipi...
    2	/S3/s3.amazonaws.com/td-usgs/CSVDATA/09380000/...	Temp,Flow,site_no,datetime,Conductance,Precipi...
    3	/S3/s3.amazonaws.com/td-usgs/CSVDATA/09380000/...	Temp,Flow,site_no,datetime,Conductance,Precipi...
    4	/S3/s3.amazonaws.com/td-usgs/CSVDATA/09380000/...	Temp,Flow,site_no,datetime,Conductance,Precipi...
    5	/S3/s3.amazonaws.com/td-usgs/CSVDATA/09380000/...	Temp,Flow,site_no,datetime,Conductance,Precipi...
    6	/S3/s3.amazonaws.com/td-usgs/CSVDATA/09380000/...	Temp,Flow,site_no,datetime,Conductance,Precipi...
    7	/S3/s3.amazonaws.com/td-usgs/CSVDATA/09380000/...	Temp,Flow,site_no,datetime,Conductance,Precipi...
    8	/S3/s3.amazonaws.com/td-usgs/CSVDATA/09380000/...	Temp,Flow,site_no,datetime,Conductance,Precipi...
    9	/S3/s3.amazonaws.com/td-usgs/CSVDATA/09380000/...	Temp,Flow,site_no,datetime,Conductance,Precipi...