diff --git a/src/databricks/sql/utils.py b/src/databricks/sql/utils.py
index 7ea0d7f5c..8682f0ad1 100644
--- a/src/databricks/sql/utils.py
+++ b/src/databricks/sql/utils.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     pyarrow = None
 
 from databricks.sql import OperationalError
+from databricks.sql.exc import ProgrammingError
 from databricks.sql.cloudfetch.download_manager import ResultFileDownloadManager
 from databricks.sql.thrift_api.TCLIService.ttypes import (
     TRowSet,
@@ -548,7 +549,7 @@ def escape_args(self, parameters):
         elif isinstance(parameters, (list, tuple)):
             return tuple(self.escape_item(x) for x in parameters)
         else:
-            raise exc.ProgrammingError(
+            raise ProgrammingError(
                 "Unsupported param format: {}".format(parameters)
             )
 
@@ -606,7 +607,7 @@ def escape_item(self, item):
         elif isinstance(item, Mapping):
             return self.escape_mapping(item)
         else:
-            raise exc.ProgrammingError("Unsupported object {}".format(item))
+            raise ProgrammingError("Unsupported object {}".format(item))
 
 
 def inject_parameters(operation: str, parameters: Dict[str, str]):