[sqlmap 1.2.10#pip, Python 2.7.14 on Windows 10]

Trying to directly connect (-d) results in the below error for all RDBMs. Nothing changes when I install the necessary driver or SQLAlchemy via pip.

A Process Monitor trace shows that sqlmap looks for the driver in certain places (for instance the root of sqlmap's directory. Placing the driver in this directory results in "SUCCESS" result in Process Monitor but sqlmap still shows the below error.

[CRITICAL] sqlmap requires 'python-pymssql' third-party library in order to directly connect to the DBMS 'Microsoft SQL Server'. You can download it from 'https://github.com/pymssql/pymssql'. Alternative is to use a package 'python-sqlalchemy' with support for dialect 'mssql+pymssql' installed