diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymssql/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pymssql/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymssql/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pymssql/__init__.py
index 2f2ca5f4a2..9da65734bc 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymssql/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pymssql/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymssql/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pymssql/__init__.py
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
 
     cnx = pymssql.connect(database="MSSQL_Database")
     cursor = cnx.cursor()
-    cursor.execute("INSERT INTO test (testField) VALUES (123)"
+    cursor.execute("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test (testField INTEGER)")
+    cursor.execute("INSERT INTO test (testField) VALUES (123)")
     cnx.commit()
     cursor.close()
     cnx.close()
@@ -44,7 +45,8 @@
     cnx = pymssql.connect(database="MSSQL_Database")
     instrumented_cnx = PyMSSQLInstrumentor().instrument_connection(cnx)
     cursor = instrumented_cnx.cursor()
-    cursor.execute("INSERT INTO test (testField) VALUES (123)"
+    cursor.execute("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test (testField INTEGER)")
+    cursor.execute("INSERT INTO test (testField) VALUES (123)")
     instrumented_cnx.commit()
     cursor.close()
     instrumented_cnx.close()