List of tables in a Database as options of a Combobox & show records

List of Tables as options of Combobox in Tkinter

Connection to Database

Here sample codes for both MySQL and SQLite is available. Other database connections can be added.
Keep the name of the connection object ( or string ) as my_conn as the same is used inside rest of the script.

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.exc import SQLAlchemyError
try: # connection to database 
    my_path="D:\\testing\\sqlite\\my_db.db" #Change the path 
    my_conn = create_engine("sqlite:///" + my_path) # for SQLite database
    # for MySQL use below line # 
    #my_conn =create_engine("mysql+mysqldb://root:pw@localhost/my_database")
except SQLAlchemyError as e:
    error = str(e.__dict__['orig'])
    print(error)

Database Table List as options of Tkinter Combobox and showing records of selected table

List of tables inside Database

The query to get the list of tables is different for different databases. Use any one type here.

#query='SHOW TABLES' # for MySQL 
query = "SELECT name FROM sqlite_schema WHERE type = 'table'" # SQLite
#query= "SELECT * FROM  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES" # MSSQL 

my_data=my_conn.execute(query) # SQLAlchemy my_conn result
tables = [row[0] for row in my_data] # list of tables

The list tables we will use as options for our Combobox

Showing tables as options of Combobox

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("500x400") 

sel=tk.StringVar() # string variable 
cb1 = ttk.Combobox(my_w, values=tables,textvariable=sel) # Combobox
cb1.grid(row=0,column=0,padx=10,pady=20) # adding to grid
#sel.trace('w',my_show) # triger the function on change of StringVar
my_w.mainloop() # keep the window open

Displaying records of selected Table from Combobox

To display records of the selected table, we added one Text widget t1 below the combobox cb1 ( next row ) .

t1 = tk.Text(my_w, height=7, width=45,bg='yellow') # added one text box
t1.grid(row=1,column=0,padx=10,pady=10) #

We can delete or add data to the text widget. Here my_str is the data we want to add or display inside the text widget t1.

t1.delete('1.0',END) # Delete all previous data if any 
t1.insert(tk.END, my_str) # add data

Inside the function my_show() we created the Query by using the selected option of cb1 ( table name ) and we used LIMIT query to get 5 records.
From the query result, one list is crated and using the list one string my_str is crated by using join().
In above code we used one StringVar sel and connected the same to our Combobox ( cb1 ). We will use this StringVar() sel while displaying the records of selected table.
We have used trace() method of StringVar() sel to trigger the callback function my_show().

def my_show(*args):
    query="SELECT *  FROM " + sel.get() +" LIMIT 0,5"                
    my_data=my_conn.execute(query) # SQLAlchemy my_conn result
    data=[row for row in my_data] # crate a list from data
    my_str="\n".join(map(str,data)) # create a string
	
    t1.delete('1.0',END) # Delete all previous data if any 
    t1.insert(tk.END, my_str) # add data 
sel.trace('w',my_show) # trigger the function on change of StringVar sel

Full code is here.

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.exc import SQLAlchemyError
try: # connection to database 
    my_path="D:\\testing\\sqlite\\my_db.db" #Change the path 
    my_conn = create_engine("sqlite:///" + my_path)
    # for MySQL use below line # 
    #my_conn =create_engine("mysql+mysqldb://root:pw@localhost/my_database")
except SQLAlchemyError as e:
    error = str(e.__dict__['orig'])
    print(error) 

#query='SHOW TABLES' # for MySQL 
query = "SELECT name FROM sqlite_schema WHERE type = 'table'" # SQLite
#query= "SELECT * FROM  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES" # MSSQL 

my_data=my_conn.execute(query) # SQLAlchemy my_conn result
tables = [row[0] for row in my_data] # list of tables 

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("500x400") 
sel=tk.StringVar() # string variable 
cb1 = ttk.Combobox(my_w, values=tables,textvariable=sel) # Combobox
cb1.grid(row=0,column=0,padx=10,pady=20) # adding to grid

t1 = tk.Text(my_w, height=7, width=45,bg='yellow') # added one text box
t1.grid(row=1,column=0,padx=10,pady=10) # 

def my_show(*args):
    query="SELECT *  FROM " + sel.get() +" LIMIT 0,5"                
    my_data=my_conn.execute(query) # SQLAlchemy my_conn result
    data=[row for row in my_data] # crate a list from data
    my_str="\n".join(map(str,data)) # create a string
    t1.delete('1.0',END) # Delete from position 0 till end 
    t1.insert(tk.END, my_str) # add data 
sel.trace('w',my_show) # triger the function on change of StringVar
my_w.mainloop() # keep the window open

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List of Tables as options of Combobox

Connection to Database

List of tables inside Database

Showing tables as options of Combobox

Displaying records of selected Table from Combobox

Subhendu Mohapatra