import pymssql

# connect to SQL Server instance
conn = pymssql.connect(host='localhost', user='sa', password='sa', database='nosde')

# commits every transaction automatically and setup cursor
conn.autocommit(True)
cur = conn.cursor()

# !!Chunk of code stripped out on how I get my coords, unrelated to Q.

# Store projected coords in a GEOMETRY type field
geom_type = "geometry::STPointFromText('POINT(%s %s)', 3857)" % (x, y)
    try:
        cur.execute("INSERT INTO tweets (geom) VALUES (%s)" % (geom_type))
    except TypeError:
        print "Could not INSERT", clean

    conn.close()