diff --git a/R/DBI.R b/R/DBI.R
index 6cb13635..a09313d1 100644
--- a/R/DBI.R
+++ b/R/DBI.R
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ setClass("DatabaseConnectorDbiResult",
 setMethod(
   "dbSendQuery",
   signature("DatabaseConnectorJdbcConnection", "character"),
-  function(conn, statement, translate = FALSE, ...) {
+  function(conn, statement, translate = getOption("databaseConnectorTranslate", default = TRUE), ...) {
     if (rJava::is.jnull(conn@jConnection)) {
       abort("Connection is closed")
     }
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ setMethod(
 setMethod(
   "dbSendQuery",
   signature("DatabaseConnectorDbiConnection", "character"),
-  function(conn, statement, translate = FALSE, ...) {
+  function(conn, statement, translate = getOption("databaseConnectorTranslate", default = TRUE), ...) {
     if (translate) {
       statement <- translateStatement(
         sql = statement,
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ setMethod("dbGetRowsAffected", "DatabaseConnectorDbiResult", function(res, ...)
 setMethod(
   "dbGetQuery",
   signature("DatabaseConnectorConnection", "character"),
-  function(conn, statement, translate = FALSE, ...) {
+  function(conn, statement, translate = getOption("databaseConnectorTranslate", default = TRUE), ...) {
     if (translate) {
       statement <- translateStatement(
         sql = statement,
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ setMethod(
 setMethod(
   "dbSendStatement",
   signature("DatabaseConnectorConnection", "character"),
-  function(conn, statement, translate = FALSE, ...) {
+  function(conn, statement, translate = getOption("databaseConnectorTranslate", default = TRUE), ...) {
     if (translate) {
       statement <- translateStatement(
         sql = statement,
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ setMethod(
 setMethod(
   "dbExecute",
   signature("DatabaseConnectorConnection", "character"),
-  function(conn, statement, translate = FALSE, ...) {
+  function(conn, statement, translate = getOption("databaseConnectorTranslate", default = TRUE), ...) {
     if (isDbplyrSql(statement) && dbms(conn) %in% c("oracle", "bigquery", "spark", "hive") && grepl("^UPDATE STATISTICS", statement)) {
       # These platforms don't support this, so SqlRender translates to an empty string, which causes errors down the line.
       return(0)