diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index bb25e26..b08ac37 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
                  [org.clojure/data.csv "0.1.3"]
                  [org.clojure/core.async "0.2.395"]
                  [org.clojure/java.jdbc  "0.6.2-alpha3"]
-                 [net.sourceforge.jtds/jtds  "1.2.4"]
+                 [com.microsoft/sqljdbc4  "3.0"]
                  [clj-ssh  "0.5.14"]
                  ]
   :main airlift.core
diff --git a/src/airlift/core.clj b/src/airlift/core.clj
index d3af716..159d891 100644
--- a/src/airlift/core.clj
+++ b/src/airlift/core.clj
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 (ns airlift.core
-  (:gen-class))
+  (:gen-class)
+  (:require [airlift.db :as db]))
 
 (defn export-tables
   []
@@ -7,4 +8,4 @@
     (println config)))
 
 (defn -main [& args]
-  (export-tables))
+  (println (db/query "SELECT * Table")))
diff --git a/src/airlift/db.clj b/src/airlift/db.clj
index 5beec13..3aec6f2 100644
--- a/src/airlift/db.clj
+++ b/src/airlift/db.clj
@@ -1,2 +1,20 @@
 (ns airlift.db
-  (:require [clojure.java.jdbc :as sql]))
+  (:require [clojure.java.jdbc :as sql])
+  (:import [com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver]))
+
+(def db (com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver.))
+
+(defn config [username password]
+  "returns correct java.util.Properties instance"
+  (let [c (java.util.Properties.)]
+    (.setProperty c "user" username)
+    (.setProperty c "password" password)
+    c))
+
+(defn connect [db host port dbname config]
+  (.connect db (str "jdbc:sqlserver://" host ":" port ";databaseName=" dbname) config))
+
+(defn query [query]
+  (let  [connection (connect db "127.0.0.1" "1433" "db_name" (config "username" "password"))]
+    (.. connection (createStatement) (executeQuery query))))
+