diff --git a/query/core.py b/query/core.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/query/core.py
+++ b/query/core.py
@@ -369,5 +369,4 @@ class QueryDb(object):
         """
         return pd.io.sql.read_sql(str(query), conn, index_col=index_col,
                                   coerce_float=coerce_float, params=params,
-                                  parse_dates=parse_dates, columns=columns,
-                                  flavor='DO_NOT_SPECIFY_W_SQLALCHEMY')
+                                  parse_dates=parse_dates, columns=columns)
Remove flavor= from pandas .read_sql() calls. Breaks w/ <I>.