diff --git a/pydal/adapters/mssql.py b/pydal/adapters/mssql.py
index f58418341..9d2ce870f 100644
--- a/pydal/adapters/mssql.py
+++ b/pydal/adapters/mssql.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ def rowslice(self, rows, minimum=0, maximum=None):
 
 class MSSQL(SQLAdapter):
     dbengine = "mssql"
-    drivers = ("pyodbc", "pytds")
+    drivers = ("pyodbc", "pytds","pymssql")
 
     REGEX_DSN = "^.+$"
     REGEX_URI = (
@@ -205,3 +205,31 @@ def _initialize_(self):
                 user=self.credential_decoder(user),
                 passwd=self.credential_decoder(password),
             )
+
+#Added support for Pymssql
+@adapters.register_for("pymssql")
+class PyMssql(MSSQL):
+    def _initialize_(self):
+        import pymssql 
+        self.driver = pymssql
+        super(MSSQL, self)._initialize_()
+        ruri = self.uri.split("://", 1)[1]
+        if "@" not in ruri:
+            m = re.match(self.REGEX_DSN, ruri)
+            if not m:
+                raise SyntaxError("Invalid URI string in DAL")
+            self.dsn = m.group()
+        else:
+            m = re.match(self.REGEX_URI, ruri)
+            if not m:
+                raise SyntaxError("Invalid URI string in DAL: %s" % self.uri)
+            self.dsn = m.group("host")
+            self.driver_args.update(
+                user=self.credential_decoder(m.group("user")),
+                password=self.credential_decoder(m.group("password")) or "",
+                database=m.group("db"),
+                port=m.group("port") or "1433",
+            )
+
+    def connector(self):
+        return self.driver.connect(self.dsn, **self.driver_args)
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diff --git a/pydal/base.py b/pydal/base.py
index e538015aa..6691e569c 100644
--- a/pydal/base.py
+++ b/pydal/base.py
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@
     'mssql3://web2py:none@A64X2/web2py_test' # better pagination (requires >= 2005)
     'mssql4://web2py:none@A64X2/web2py_test' # best pagination (requires >= 2012)
     'pytds://user:password@server:port/database' # python-tds
+    'pymssql://user:password@server:port/database' # python-pymssql
     'oracle://username:password@database'
     'firebird://user:password@server:3050/database'
     'db2:ibm_db_dbi://DSN=dsn;UID=user;PWD=pass'
diff --git a/pydal/drivers.py b/pydal/drivers.py
index 1d4f21d59..d2546fff8 100644
--- a/pydal/drivers.py
+++ b/pydal/drivers.py
@@ -189,3 +189,10 @@
     DRIVERS["pytds"] = pytds
 except:
     pass
+
+try:
+    import pymssql
+
+    DRIVERS["pymssql"] = pymssql
+except:
+    pass