I am attempting to query a subset of a MySql database table, feed the results into a Pandas DataFrame, alter some data, and then write the updated rows back to the same table. My table size is ~1MM rows, and the number of rows I will be altering will be relatively small (<50,000) so bringing back the entire table and performing a df.to_sql(tablename,engine, if_exists='replace') isn't a viable option. Is there a straightforward way to UPDATE the rows that have been altered without iterating over every row in the DataFrame?
I am aware of this project, which attempts to simulate an "upsert" workflow, but it seems it only accomplishes the task of inserting new non-duplicate rows rather than updating parts of existing rows:
Here is a skeleton of what I'm attempting to accomplish on a much larger scale:
import pandas as pd
from sqlalchemy import