How to preserve the data types when writing pandas DataFrame to Excel?

Retiago Drago - Nov 14 '21 - - Dev Community

I'm having an issue with how pandas could not preserve the data types of my table after writing process.

This is my table in which I read the data from SQL Server with my query.

Initial

And I simply code this line to write a new one hoping that it will yield the same result when I read it later.

df.to_excel('new2.xlsx', index=False, engine='xlsxwriter')
df2 = pd.read_excel('new2.xlsx')
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And I ended up with this.

After writing process

I'm having a hard time finding the right keywords and solutions on Stack Overflow. I've already read the pandas documentation but nothing covers my case.

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