diff --git a/pattoo/db/__init__.py b/pattoo/db/__init__.py
index 754945b5..7aec1f1d 100644
--- a/pattoo/db/__init__.py
+++ b/pattoo/db/__init__.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 # Main python libraries
 import os
-import logging
 
 from sqlalchemy import create_engine
 from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, scoped_session
diff --git a/pip_requirements.txt b/pip_requirements.txt
index ef6919d7..9c338487 100644
--- a/pip_requirements.txt
+++ b/pip_requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Flask-Session
 # Database packages
 PyMySQL
 SQLAlchemy
-mysqlclient
+#mysqlclient
 
 # GraphQL packages
 graphene-sqlalchemy
diff --git a/tests/bin/setup_db.py b/tests/bin/setup_db.py
index 00ead362..08352b07 100755
--- a/tests/bin/setup_db.py
+++ b/tests/bin/setup_db.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 DB_NAME = 'pattoo_unittest'
 DB_NAME_ERROR = '''An error occurred: {} database does not exist!\nPlease create
 before running tests!'''.format(DB_NAME)
-DB_URI='mysql://:@localhost/{}'.format(DB_NAME)
+DB_URI='mysql+pymysql://:@localhost/{}'.format(DB_NAME)
 
 def create_tables(tables):
     """Create mock tables for testing in DB_NAME