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# dataframeutils

> dataframeutils — Kinetica Python API

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      <h1>Class DataFrameUtils</h1>

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        <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb_dataframe.DataFrameUtils"> <span className="em property"><span className="k"><span className="pre">class</span></span><span className="w"> </span></span><span className="sig-prename descclassname"><span className="pre">gpudb\_dataframe.</span></span><span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">DataFrameUtils</span></span></div>

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            <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb_dataframe.DataFrameUtils.sql_to_df"> <span className="em property"><span className="k"><span className="pre">classmethod</span></span><span className="w"> </span></span><span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">sql\_to\_df</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">db</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><a className="reference internal" href="/content/api/python/source/gpudb#gpudb.GPUdb" title="gpudb.GPUdb"><span className="pre">GPUdb</span></a></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">sql</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">str</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">sql\_params</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">list</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">\[]</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">batch\_size</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">int</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">5000</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">sql\_opts</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">dict</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">{"{"}{"}"}</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">show\_progress</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">bool</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">False</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span> <span className="sig-return"><span className="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span className="sig-return-typehint"><span className="pre">DataFrame</span><span className="w"> </span><span className="p"><span className="pre">|</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="pre">None</span></span></span></div>

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              <p>Create a <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code> from the results of a SQL query.</p>
              <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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                    <div className="dt">db (<span className="em">GPUdb</span>) –</div>

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                      <p>a <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">GPUdb</span></code> instance</p>
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                    <div className="dt">sql (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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                      <p>the SQL query</p>
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                    <div className="dt">sql\_params (<span className="em">list</span>) –</div>

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                      <p>the query parameters. Defaults to None.</p>
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                    <div className="dt">batch\_size (<span className="em">int</span>) –</div>

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                      <p>the batch size for the SQL execution results. Defaults to <code className="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">BATCH\_SIZE</span></code>.</p>
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                    <div className="dt">sql\_opts (<span className="em">dict</span>) –</div>

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                      <p>the SQL options as a dict. Defaults to None.</p>
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                    <div className="dt">show\_progress (<span className="em">bool</span>) –</div>

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                      <p>whether to display progress or not. Defaults to False.</p>
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              <p><strong>Raises</strong></p>

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                    <div className="dt">GPUdbException –</div>

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                      <p>If the SQL query failed</p>
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              <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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                    <div className="dt">pd.DataFrame –</div>

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                      <p>a Pandas <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code> or None if the SQL query has returned no results</p>
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            <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb_dataframe.DataFrameUtils.table_to_df"> <span className="em property"><span className="k"><span className="pre">classmethod</span></span><span className="w"> </span></span><span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">table\_to\_df</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">db</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><a className="reference internal" href="/content/api/python/source/gpudb#gpudb.GPUdb" title="gpudb.GPUdb"><span className="pre">GPUdb</span></a></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">table\_name</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">str</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">batch\_size</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">int</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">5000</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">show\_progress</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">bool</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">False</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span> <span className="sig-return"><span className="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span className="sig-return-typehint"><span className="pre">DataFrame</span><span className="w"> </span><span className="p"><span className="pre">|</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="pre">None</span></span></span></div>

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              <p>Convert a Kinetica table into a <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code> and load data into it.</p>
              <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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                    <div className="dt">db (<span className="em">GPUdb</span>) –</div>

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                      <p>a <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">GPUdb</span></code> instance</p>
                    </div>

                    <div className="dt">table\_name (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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                      <p>name of the Kinetica table</p>
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                    <div className="dt">batch\_size (<span className="em">int</span>) –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>the batch size for the SQL execution results. Defaults to <code className="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">BATCH\_SIZE</span></code>.</p>
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                    <div className="dt">show\_progress (<span className="em">bool</span>) –</div>

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                      <p>whether to display progress or not. Defaults to False.</p>
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              <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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                    <div className="dt">pd.Dataframe –</div>

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                      <p>Returns a Pandas <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code> created from the Kinetica table</p>
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            <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb_dataframe.DataFrameUtils.table_type_as_df"> <span className="em property"><span className="k"><span className="pre">classmethod</span></span><span className="w"> </span></span><span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">table\_type\_as\_df</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">gpudb\_table</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><a className="reference internal" href="/content/api/python/source/gpudbtable#gpudb.GPUdbTable" title="gpudb.GPUdbTable"><span className="pre">GPUdbTable</span></a></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span> <span className="sig-return"><span className="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span className="sig-return-typehint"><span className="pre">DataFrame</span></span></span></div>

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              <p>Convert the type schema (column list) of a <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">GPUdbTable</span></code> into a <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code>.</p>
              <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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                    <div className="dt">gpudb\_table (<span className="em">GPUdbTable</span>) –</div>

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                      <p>a <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">GPUdbTable</span></code> instance</p>
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              <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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                    <div className="dt">pd.DataFrame –</div>

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                      <p>a Pandas <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code> created by analyzing the table column types</p>
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            <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb_dataframe.DataFrameUtils.df_to_table"> <span className="em property"><span className="k"><span className="pre">classmethod</span></span><span className="w"> </span></span><span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">df\_to\_table</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">df</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">DataFrame</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">db</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><a className="reference internal" href="/content/api/python/source/gpudb#gpudb.GPUdb" title="gpudb.GPUdb"><span className="pre">GPUdb</span></a></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">table\_name</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">str</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">column\_types</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">dict</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">{"{"}{"}"}</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">clear\_table</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">bool</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">False</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">create\_table</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">bool</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">True</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">load\_data</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">bool</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">True</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">show\_progress</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">bool</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">False</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">batch\_size</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">int</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">5000</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="o"><span className="pre">\*\*</span></span><span className="n"><span className="pre">kwargs</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span> <span className="sig-return"><span className="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span className="sig-return-typehint"><a className="reference internal" href="/content/api/python/source/gpudbtable#gpudb.GPUdbTable" title="gpudb.GPUdbTable"><span className="pre">GPUdbTable</span></a></span></span></div>

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              <p>Load a <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code> into a table; optionally dropping any existing table, creating it if it doesn’t exist, and loading data into it; and then returning a <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">GPUdbTable</span></code> reference to the table.</p>
              <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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                    <div className="dt">df (<span className="em">pd.DataFrame</span>) –</div>

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                      <p>The Pandas <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code> to load into a table</p>
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                    <div className="dt">db (<span className="em">GPUdb</span>) –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p><code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">GPUdb</span></code> instance</p>
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                    <div className="dt">table\_name (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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                      <p>Name of the target Kinetica table for the <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code> loading</p>
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                    <div className="dt">column\_types (<span className="em">dict</span>) –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>Optional Kinetica column properties to apply to the column type definitions inferred from the <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code>; map of column name to a list of column properties for that column, excluding the inferred base type. Defaults to empty map. For example:</p>

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                        ```
                        { "middle_name": [ 'char64', 'nullable' ], "state": [ 'char2', 'dict' ] }
                        ```
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                    <div className="dt">clear\_table (<span className="em">bool</span>) –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>Whether to drop an existing table of the same name or not before creating this one. Defaults to False.</p>
                    </div>

                    <div className="dt">create\_table (<span className="em">bool</span>) –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>Whether to create the table if it doesn’t exist or not. Defaults to True.</p>
                    </div>

                    <div className="dt">load\_data (<span className="em">bool</span>) –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>Whether to load data into the target table or not. Defaults to True.</p>
                    </div>

                    <div className="dt">show\_progress (<span className="em">bool</span>) –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>Whether to show progress of the operation on the console. Defaults to False.</p>
                    </div>

                    <div className="dt">batch\_size (<span className="em">int</span>) –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>The number of records at a time to load into the target table. Defaults to <code className="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">BATCH\_SIZE</span></code>.</p>
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              <p><strong>Raises</strong></p>

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                    <div className="dt">GPUdbException –</div>

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                      <p>If the <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code> is empty, the table doesn’t exist and <code className="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">create\_table</span></code> is False, or the data ingest fails</p>
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              <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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                    <div className="dt">GPUdbTable –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>a <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">GPUdbTable</span></code> instance created from the <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code> passed in</p>
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                  </div>
                </div>
              </blockquote>
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            <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb_dataframe.DataFrameUtils.df_insert_into_table"> <span className="em property"><span className="k"><span className="pre">classmethod</span></span><span className="w"> </span></span><span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">df\_insert\_into\_table</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">df</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">DataFrame</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">gpudb\_table</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><a className="reference internal" href="/content/api/python/source/gpudbtable#gpudb.GPUdbTable" title="gpudb.GPUdbTable"><span className="pre">GPUdbTable</span></a></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">batch\_size</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">int</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">5000</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">show\_progress</span></span><span className="p"><span className="pre">:</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="n"><span className="pre">bool</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="w"> </span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">False</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span> <span className="sig-return"><span className="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span className="sig-return-typehint"><span className="pre">int</span></span></span></div>

            <div className="dd">
              <p>Load a Pandas <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code> into a <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">GPUdbTable</span></code>.</p>
              <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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                    <div className="dt">df (<span className="em">pd.Dataframe</span>) –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>a Pandas <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code></p>
                    </div>

                    <div className="dt">gpudb\_table (<span className="em">GPUdbTable</span>) –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>a <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">GPUdbTable</span></code> instance</p>
                    </div>

                    <div className="dt">batch\_size (<span className="em">int</span>) –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>a batch size to use for loading data into the table. Defaults to <code className="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">BATCH\_SIZE</span></code>.</p>
                    </div>

                    <div className="dt">show\_progress (<span className="em">bool</span>) –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>whether to show progress of the operation. Defaults to False.</p>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                </div>
              </blockquote>

              <p><strong>Raises</strong></p>

              <blockquote>
                <div>
                  <div className="dl simple">
                    <div className="dt">GPUdbException –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>If the data ingest fails</p>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                </div>
              </blockquote>

              <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

              <blockquote>
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                  <div className="dl simple">
                    <div className="dt">int –</div>

                    <div className="dd">
                      <p>the number of rows of the <code className="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">pd.Dataframe</span></code> actually inserted into the Kinetica table</p>
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