diff --git a/caravel/config.py b/caravel/config.py
index 4babe71528dbb..d8d12e3ad0848 100644
--- a/caravel/config.py
+++ b/caravel/config.py
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
 
 # The SQLAlchemy connection string.
 SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'sqlite:////tmp/caravel.db'
+# this is for platform specific: "nt" is for windows, "posix" is *nix (including Mac)
+if os.name == "nt":
+    SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'sqlite:///c:\\tmp\\caravel.db'    
 # SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'mysql://myapp@localhost/myapp'
 # SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'postgresql://root:password@localhost/myapp'