diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e36fd348ab..dcd7e1a460 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ The types of changes are:
 
 ## [Unreleased](https://github.com/ethyca/fides/compare/2.19.0...main)
 
+### Changed
+
+- Bump PyMSSQL version and remove workarounds [#3996](https://github.com/ethyca/fides/pull/3996)
+
 ## [2.19.0](https://github.com/ethyca/fides/compare/2.18.0...2.19.0)
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index b0a9f6670e..2b14f26643 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -44,12 +44,6 @@ RUN pip --no-cache-dir --disable-pip-version-check install --upgrade pip setupto
 
 COPY requirements.txt .
 
-# isolate our pymssql install and pin cython and pymssql versions explicitly
-# this is due to a pymssql issue and is hopefully only temporarily necessary
-# see https://github.com/ethyca/fides/issues/3824
-RUN pip install cython==0.29.35
-RUN pip install pymssql==2.1.5 --no-build-isolation
-
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir install -r requirements.txt
 
 COPY dev-requirements.txt .
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index c419da707b..f22bd26b8e 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ include LICENSE
 include README.md
 include requirements.txt
 include dev-requirements.txt
-include dangerous-requirements.txt
 include versioneer.py
 include src/fides/api/alembic/alembic.ini
 include src/fides/_version.py
diff --git a/dangerous-requirements.txt b/dangerous-requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 73fd70becf..0000000000
--- a/dangerous-requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# These requirements are dangerous on certain platforms
-Cython==0.29.35
-pymssql==2.2.7
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/noxfiles/ci_nox.py b/noxfiles/ci_nox.py
index a7fdf953cf..25a075580f 100644
--- a/noxfiles/ci_nox.py
+++ b/noxfiles/ci_nox.py
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ def collect_tests(session: nox.Session) -> None:
     errors within the test code.
     """
     session.install(".")
-    install_requirements(session, include_dangerous=True)
+    install_requirements(session)
     command = ("pytest", "tests/", "--collect-only")
     session.run(*command)
 
diff --git a/noxfiles/utils_nox.py b/noxfiles/utils_nox.py
index 6fe445cbe9..aea75f4dfc 100644
--- a/noxfiles/utils_nox.py
+++ b/noxfiles/utils_nox.py
@@ -51,11 +51,9 @@ def teardown(session: nox.Session, volumes: bool = False, images: bool = False)
     session.log("Teardown complete")
 
 
-def install_requirements(session: nox.Session, include_dangerous=False) -> None:
+def install_requirements(session: nox.Session) -> None:
     session.install("-r", "requirements.txt")
     session.install("-r", "dev-requirements.txt")
-    if include_dangerous:
-        session.install("-r", "dangerous-requirements.txt")
 
 
 @nox.session()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 595868b71e..d2069b21d4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ pydash==6.0.2
 PyJWT==2.4.0
 pymongo==3.13.0
 PyMySQL==1.0.2
+pymssql==2.2.8
 python-jose[cryptography]==3.3.0
 pyyaml>=5,<7
 redis==3.5.3
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e82874d65b..ff48fcd556 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import pathlib
-from typing import List
 
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
@@ -14,43 +13,6 @@
 
 install_requires = open("requirements.txt", encoding="utf-8").read().strip().split("\n")
 dev_requires = open("dev-requirements.txt", encoding="utf-8").read().strip().split("\n")
-dangerous_requires = (
-    open("dangerous-requirements.txt", encoding="utf-8").read().strip().split("\n")
-)
-
-
-def optional_requirements(
-    dependency_names: List[str], requires: List[str] = dangerous_requires
-) -> List[str]:
-    """
-    Matches the provided dependency names to lines in `optional-requirements.txt`,
-    and returns the full dependency string for each one.
-    Prevents the need to store version numbers in two places.
-    """
-
-    requirements: List[str] = []
-
-    for dependency in dependency_names:
-        for optional_dependency in requires:
-            if optional_dependency.startswith(dependency):
-                requirements.append(optional_dependency)
-                break
-
-    if len(requirements) == len(dependency_names):
-        return requirements
-
-    raise ModuleNotFoundError
-
-
-# Human-Readable Extras
-# Versions are read from corresponding lines in `optional-requirements.txt`
-extras = {
-    "mssql": optional_requirements(["pymssql"], dangerous_requires),
-}
-dangerous_extras = ["mssql"]  # These extras break on certain platforms
-extras["all"] = sum(
-    [value for key, value in extras.items() if key not in dangerous_extras], []
-)
 
 ###################
 ## Package Setup ##
@@ -73,7 +35,6 @@ def optional_requirements(
     license="Apache License 2.0",
     install_requires=install_requires,
     dev_requires=dev_requires,
-    extras_require=extras,
     classifiers=[
         "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
diff --git a/src/fides/api/main.py b/src/fides/api/main.py
index c352175b5f..f616454dca 100644
--- a/src/fides/api/main.py
+++ b/src/fides/api/main.py
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 import os
 import sys
 from datetime import datetime, timezone
-from time import perf_counter
 from logging import WARNING
+from time import perf_counter
 from typing import Callable, Optional
 from urllib.parse import unquote