diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 821709c..e6b2ca7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#Enumer
+# Enumer
 Enumer generates Go code to get string names from enum values and viceversa.
 It is a fork of [Rob Pike’s Stringer tool](https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer) 
 but adding a *"string to enum value"* method to the generated code.
@@ -50,4 +50,7 @@ The generated code is exactly the same as the Stringer tool plus the `<Type>Stri
 
 ## How to use
 The usage of Enumer is the same as Stringer, no changes were introduced.
-For more information please refer to the [Stringer docs](https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer) 
\ No newline at end of file
+For more information please refer to the [Stringer docs](https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer) 
+
+## Additional functions of this fork
+This fork additionally implements the Scanner and Valuer interface to use a enum seamlessly in a database model.
diff --git a/sql.go b/sql.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27aee38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sql.go
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package main
+
+// Arguments to format are:
+//	[1]: type name
+const valuer = `func (i %[1]s) Value() (driver.Value, error) {
+	return i.String(), nil
+}
+`
+
+const scanner = `func (i %[1]s) Scan(value interface{}) error {
+	str, ok := value.(string)
+	if !ok {
+		fmt.Errorf("value is not a string")
+	}
+
+	val, err := %[1]sString(str)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	
+	i = val
+	return nil
+}
+`
+
+func (g *Generator) addValuerAndScanner(runs [][]Value, typeName string, runsThreshold int) {
+	g.Printf("\n")
+	g.Printf(valuer, typeName)
+	g.Printf("\n\n")
+	g.Printf(scanner, typeName)
+}
diff --git a/stringer.go b/stringer.go
index 81efa59..0944bc0 100644
--- a/stringer.go
+++ b/stringer.go
@@ -128,11 +128,14 @@ func main() {
 	}
 
 	// Print the header and package clause.
-	g.Printf("// Code generated by \"stringer %s\"; DO NOT EDIT\n", strings.Join(os.Args[1:], " "))
+	g.Printf("// Code generated by \"enumer %s\"; DO NOT EDIT\n", strings.Join(os.Args[1:], " "))
 	g.Printf("\n")
 	g.Printf("package %s", g.pkg.name)
 	g.Printf("\n")
-	g.Printf("import \"fmt\"\n") // Used by all methods.
+	g.Printf("import (\n")
+	g.Printf("\t\"fmt\"\n")
+	g.Printf("\t\"database/sql/driver\"\n")
+	g.Printf(")\n")
 
 	// Run generate for each type.
 	for _, typeName := range types {
@@ -310,6 +313,9 @@ func (g *Generator) generate(typeName string) {
 	}
 	// ENUMER: This is the only addition over the original stringer code. Everything else is in enumer.go
 	g.buildValueToNameMap(runs, typeName, 10)
+
+	// SQL
+	g.addValuerAndScanner(runs, typeName, 0)
 }
 
 // splitIntoRuns breaks the values into runs of contiguous sequences.