diff --git a/mlflow/store/artifact/db_artifact_repo.py b/mlflow/store/artifact/db_artifact_repo.py
index 40a2037c2fdc3..ac511a461a83b 100644
--- a/mlflow/store/artifact/db_artifact_repo.py
+++ b/mlflow/store/artifact/db_artifact_repo.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import logging
 import os
+import posixpath
 from abc import ABCMeta
 import sqlalchemy
 import tempfile
@@ -47,26 +48,17 @@ def extract_db_uri_and_root_path(repo_uri):
         error_msg = "Invalid database scheme in the URI: '%s'. %s" % (scheme, _INVALID_DB_URI_MSG)
         raise MlflowException(error_msg, INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE)
 
-    if parsed_uri.query == "":
-        if parsed_uri.path == "":
-            return repo_uri, ""
-        else:
-            parsed_path = parsed_uri.path.split(ROOT_PATH_BASE, 1)
-            if len(parsed_path) == 2:
-                db_uri = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(repo_uri))
-                path = os.path.normpath(repo_uri.split(db_uri)[1])
-                path = path.split(os.sep, 1)[1]
-                return db_uri, path
-            else:
-                return repo_uri, ""
-    else:
-        parsed_query = parsed_uri.query.split("/", 1)
-        if len(parsed_query) == 2:
-            path = os.path.normpath(parsed_query[1])
-            parsed_uri = parsed_uri._replace(query=parsed_query[0])
-        else:
-            path = ""
-        return urllib.parse.urlunparse(parsed_uri), path
+    def get_dbname_and_path(uri_path):
+        head, tail = posixpath.split(uri_path)
+        if len(head) == 0 or head == posixpath.sep:
+            return tail, posixpath.sep
+
+        dbname, path = get_dbname_and_path(head)
+        return dbname, posixpath.join(path, tail)
+
+    dbname, artifact_path = get_dbname_and_path(parsed_uri.path)
+    parsed_root_uri = parsed_uri._replace(path=dbname)
+    return urllib.parse.urlunparse(parsed_root_uri), artifact_path
 
 
 class DBArtifactRepository(ArtifactRepository):