title: Unable to connect to MSSQL database via django-mssql
body: <p>I'm trying to connect to my Microsoft SQL Server database from django but I am getting the following error when running the web server using <a href="http://django-mssql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">django-mssql</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>PS N:\Documents\Python&gt; python .\manage.py check
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File ".\manage.py", line 10, in &lt;module&gt;
      execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 353, in execute_from_command_line
      utility.execute()
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 327, in execute
      django.setup()
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\__init__.py", line 18, in setup
      apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\apps\registry.py", line 108, in populate
      app_config.import_models(all_models)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\apps\config.py", line 202, in import_models
      self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
      __import__(name)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\models.py", line 4, in &lt;module&gt;
      from django.contrib.auth.base_user import AbstractBaseUser, BaseUserManager
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\base_user.py", line 49, in &lt;module&gt;
      class AbstractBaseUser(models.Model):
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py", line 108, in __new__
      new_class.add_to_class('_meta', Options(meta, app_label))
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py", line 307, in add_to_class
      value.contribute_to_class(cls, name)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\options.py", line 263, in contribute_to_class
      self.db_table = truncate_name(self.db_table, connection.ops.max_name_length())
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\__init__.py", line 36, in __getattr__
      return getattr(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS], item)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 212, in __getitem__
      backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE'])
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 135, in load_backend
      raise ImproperlyConfigured(error_msg)
  django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: 'sqlserver_ado' isn't an available database backend.
  Try using 'django.db.backends.XXX', where XXX is one of:
      'mysql', 'oracle', 'postgresql', 'sqlite3'
  Error was: cannot import name getLogger
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>settings.py</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>DATABASES = {
      'default': {
          'NAME': 'Misc',
          'ENGINE': 'sqlserver_ado',
          'HOST': 'server1\\ss2012',
          'USER': 'DOMAIN\dcullen',
          'PASSWORD': 'X',
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried to follow <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9944204/setting-up-django-mssql-issues/36977622#36977622">this</a> post to solve the issue but it fails on the <code>getLogger</code> part at the bottom.</p>
  
  <p>What could the issue be?</p>