diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/setup.py b/metadata-ingestion/setup.py
index e4703081fa71be..aca12aaebefd05 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/setup.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/setup.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def get_long_description():
 
 sql_common = {
     # Required for all SQL sources.
-    "sqlalchemy>=1.3.24,<2.0.0",
+    "sqlalchemy==1.3.24",
     # Required for SQL profiling.
     "great-expectations>=0.14.11,<0.15.3",
     # datahub does not depend on Jinja2 directly but great expectations does. With Jinja2 3.1.0 GE 0.14.11 is breaking