diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index d53e071..1532257 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ Title: Helpers for Accessing and Querying Amazon Athena
 Version: 0.2.0
 Date: 2018-03-19
 Authors@R: c(
-    person("Bob", "Rudis", email = "bob@rud.is", role = c("aut", "cre"), 
-    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5670-2640"))
+    person("Bob", "Rudis", email = "bob@rud.is", role = c("aut", "cre"),
+    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5670-2640")),
+    person("Zachary, "Kurtz", email="zdkurtz@gmail.com", role = "ctb")
   )
 Maintainer: Bob Rudis <bob@rud.is>
-Encoding: UTF-8 
-Description: Helpers for Accessing and Querying Amazon Athena. Including a 
+Encoding: UTF-8
+Description: Helpers for Accessing and Querying Amazon Athena. Including a
     lightweight RJDBC shim.
 URL: https://github.com/hrbrmstr/metis
 BugReports: https://github.com/hrbrmstr/metis/issues
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ Depends:
     R (>= 3.2.0),
     RJDBC
 Imports:
+    rJava,
     DBI,
     dplyr,
     readr,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index be6bc8d..bfda388 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -19,4 +19,5 @@ import(RJDBC)
 import(dplyr)
 importFrom(aws.signature,read_credentials)
 importFrom(aws.signature,use_credentials)
+importFrom(rJava,.jcall)
 importFrom(readr,type_convert)
diff --git a/R/jdbc.r b/R/jdbc.r
index a46a360..6292535 100644
--- a/R/jdbc.r
+++ b/R/jdbc.r
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ setMethod(
 #' @param conn Athena connection
 #' @param statement SQL statement
 #' @param ... unused
+#' @importFrom rJava .jcall
 #' @export
 setMethod(