diff --git a/clirr-ignored-differences.xml b/clirr-ignored-differences.xml
index 235cb9074..64ec7b232 100644
--- a/clirr-ignored-differences.xml
+++ b/clirr-ignored-differences.xml
@@ -6,4 +6,14 @@
     <className>com/google/cloud/spanner/jdbc/CloudSpannerJdbcConnection</className>
     <method>com.google.cloud.spanner.Dialect getDialect()</method>
   </difference>
+  <difference>
+    <differenceType>7012</differenceType>
+    <className>com/google/cloud/spanner/jdbc/CloudSpannerJdbcConnection</className>
+    <method>void setConvertDmlToMutations(boolean)</method>
+  </difference>
+  <difference>
+    <differenceType>7012</differenceType>
+    <className>com/google/cloud/spanner/jdbc/CloudSpannerJdbcConnection</className>
+    <method>boolean isConvertDmlToMutations()</method>
+  </difference>
 </differences>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/jdbc/CloudSpannerJdbcConnection.java b/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/jdbc/CloudSpannerJdbcConnection.java
index 679fa8716..67e4148ea 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/jdbc/CloudSpannerJdbcConnection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/jdbc/CloudSpannerJdbcConnection.java
@@ -299,6 +299,11 @@ default String getStatementTag() throws SQLException {
    */
   void bufferedWrite(Mutation mutation) throws SQLException;
 
+  boolean isConvertDmlToMutations() throws SQLException;
+
+  /** Instructs the JDBC connection to automatically convert DML statements to mutations. */
+  void setConvertDmlToMutations(boolean convert) throws SQLException;
+
   /**
    * Buffers the given mutations locally on the current transaction of this {@link Connection}. The
    * mutations will be written to the database at the next call to {@link Connection#commit()}. The
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/jdbc/JdbcConnection.java b/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/jdbc/JdbcConnection.java
index 9d75eee3f..b1e5a4706 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/jdbc/JdbcConnection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/jdbc/JdbcConnection.java
@@ -564,6 +564,21 @@ public void bufferedWrite(Iterable<Mutation> mutations) throws SQLException {
     }
   }
 
+  public boolean isConvertDmlToMutations() throws SQLException {
+    checkClosed();
+    return getSpannerConnection().isConvertDmlToMutations();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void setConvertDmlToMutations(boolean convert) throws SQLException {
+    checkClosed();
+    try {
+      getSpannerConnection().setConvertDmlToMutations(convert);
+    } catch (SpannerException e) {
+      throw JdbcSqlExceptionFactory.of(e);
+    }
+  }
+
   @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
   private static final class JdbcToSpannerTransactionRetryListener
       implements com.google.cloud.spanner.connection.TransactionRetryListener {