diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ba54e43..0203d13 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: peekbankr
 Type: Package
 Title: Accessing the Peekbank Database
-Version: 0.1.1.9007
+Version: 0.1.1.9008
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Mika", "Braginsky", email = "mika.br@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Kyle", "MacDonald", email = "kylem412@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ Imports:
     magrittr (>= 2.0.1),
     purrr (>= 0.3.4),
     rlang (>= 0.4.10),
-    RMySQL (>= 0.10.21),
     tidyr (>= 1.1.2),
-    stringr (>= 1.5.1)
+    stringr (>= 1.5.1),
+    RMariaDB (>= 1.3.2)
 Suggests: 
     knitr,
     rmarkdown
diff --git a/R/peekbankr.R b/R/peekbankr.R
index cb6f113..f25417d 100644
--- a/R/peekbankr.R
+++ b/R/peekbankr.R
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #' @importFrom rlang .data
 NULL
 
+options(warn=-1)
+
 pkg_globals <- new.env()
 pkg_globals$SAMPLE_RATE <- 40 # Hz
 
@@ -80,12 +82,14 @@ connect_to_peekbank <- function(db_version = "current", db_args = NULL,
                                 compress = TRUE) {
 
   db_info <- get_db_info()
-  flags <- if (compress) RMySQL::CLIENT_COMPRESS else 0
+
+  flags <- if (compress) RMariaDB::CLIENT_COMPRESS else 0
 
   if (is.null(db_args)) db_args <- db_info
 
+
   DBI::dbConnect(
-    RMySQL::MySQL(),
+    RMariaDB::MariaDB(),
     host = db_args$host,
     dbname = translate_version(db_version, db_args, db_info),
     user = db_args$user,