diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 52dd3bb2..34e172d2 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ services:
         args:
           - SOLR_VERSION=${SOLR_VERSION}
           - SOLR_DATAIMPORTHANDLER_MYSQL=${SOLR_DATAIMPORTHANDLER_MYSQL}
+          - SOLR_DATAIMPORTHANDLER_MSSQL=${SOLR_DATAIMPORTHANDLER_MSSQL}
       volumes:
         - ${DATA_PATH_HOST}/solr:/opt/solr/server/solr/mycores
       ports:
diff --git a/env-example b/env-example
index 286f9b2c..c8e0cbc5 100644
--- a/env-example
+++ b/env-example
@@ -486,6 +486,7 @@ TC_AWS_STORE_METADATA=False
 SOLR_VERSION=5.5
 SOLR_PORT=8983
 SOLR_DATAIMPORTHANDLER_MYSQL=false
+SOLR_DATAIMPORTHANDLER_MSSQL=false
 
 ### GITLAB ###############################################
 GITLAB_HOST_HTTP_PORT=8989
diff --git a/solr/Dockerfile b/solr/Dockerfile
index ba604a31..c133a6a2 100644
--- a/solr/Dockerfile
+++ b/solr/Dockerfile
@@ -12,3 +12,13 @@ RUN if [ ${SOLR_DATAIMPORTHANDLER_MYSQL} = true ]; then \
        && rm /tmp/mysql_connector.tar.gz \
 ;fi
 
+ARG SOLR_DATAIMPORTHANDLER_MSSQL=false
+ENV SOLR_DATAIMPORTHANDLER_MSSQL ${SOLR_DATAIMPORTHANDLER_MSSQL}
+
+# download mssql connector for dataimporthandler
+RUN if [ ${SOLR_DATAIMPORTHANDLER_MSSQL} = true ]; then \
+    curl -L -o /tmp/mssql-jdbc-7.0.0.jre8.jar "https://github.com/Microsoft/mssql-jdbc/releases/download/v7.0.0/mssql-jdbc-7.0.0.jre8.jar" \
+       && mkdir /opt/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/lib \
+       && mv /tmp/mssql-jdbc-7.0.0.jre8.jar "/opt/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/lib/mssql-jdbc-7.0.0.jre8.jar" \
+;fi
+