diff --git a/src/Instrumentation/PDO/README.md b/src/Instrumentation/PDO/README.md
index 7f6303529..7a56fbda4 100644
--- a/src/Instrumentation/PDO/README.md
+++ b/src/Instrumentation/PDO/README.md
@@ -23,3 +23,14 @@ The extension can be disabled via [runtime configuration](https://opentelemetry.
 ```shell
 OTEL_PHP_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS=pdo
 ```
+                     
+In case UI used to view telemetry data does not support links between spans (for example newrelic),
+you can optionally enable setting db statements attribute to `fetchAll` and `execute` spans using 
+configuration directive:
+```
+otel.instrumentation.pdo.distribute_statement_to_linked_spans = true
+```
+or environment variable:
+```shell
+OTEL_PHP_INSTRUMENTATION_PDO_DISTRIBUTE_STATEMENT_TO_LINKED_SPANS=true
+```
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Instrumentation/PDO/src/PDOInstrumentation.php b/src/Instrumentation/PDO/src/PDOInstrumentation.php
index 312c3104f..2b4b81c98 100644
--- a/src/Instrumentation/PDO/src/PDOInstrumentation.php
+++ b/src/Instrumentation/PDO/src/PDOInstrumentation.php
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 use OpenTelemetry\API\Trace\SpanKind;
 use OpenTelemetry\API\Trace\StatusCode;
 use OpenTelemetry\Context\Context;
+use OpenTelemetry\SDK\Common\Configuration\Configuration;
 use function OpenTelemetry\Instrumentation\hook;
 use OpenTelemetry\SemConv\TraceAttributes;
 use PDO;
@@ -200,6 +201,9 @@ public static function register(): void
             'fetchAll',
             pre: static function (PDOStatement $statement, array $params, string $class, string $function, ?string $filename, ?int $lineno) use ($pdoTracker, $instrumentation) {
                 $attributes = $pdoTracker->trackedAttributesForStatement($statement);
+                if (self::isDistributeStatementToLinkedSpansEnabled()) {
+                    $attributes[TraceAttributes::DB_STATEMENT] = $statement->queryString;
+                }
                 /** @psalm-suppress ArgumentTypeCoercion */
                 $builder = self::makeBuilder($instrumentation, 'PDOStatement::fetchAll', $function, $class, $filename, $lineno)
                     ->setSpanKind(SpanKind::KIND_CLIENT)
@@ -221,6 +225,11 @@ public static function register(): void
             'execute',
             pre: static function (PDOStatement $statement, array $params, string $class, string $function, ?string $filename, ?int $lineno) use ($pdoTracker, $instrumentation) {
                 $attributes = $pdoTracker->trackedAttributesForStatement($statement);
+
+                if (self::isDistributeStatementToLinkedSpansEnabled()) {
+                    $attributes[TraceAttributes::DB_STATEMENT] = $statement->queryString;
+                }
+                
                 /** @psalm-suppress ArgumentTypeCoercion */
                 $builder = self::makeBuilder($instrumentation, 'PDOStatement::execute', $function, $class, $filename, $lineno)
                     ->setSpanKind(SpanKind::KIND_CLIENT)
@@ -268,4 +277,13 @@ private static function end(?Throwable $exception): void
 
         $span->end();
     }
+
+    private static function isDistributeStatementToLinkedSpansEnabled(): bool
+    {
+        if (class_exists('OpenTelemetry\SDK\Common\Configuration\Configuration')) {
+            return Configuration::getBoolean('OTEL_PHP_INSTRUMENTATION_PDO_DISTRIBUTE_STATEMENT_TO_LINKED_SPANS', false);
+        }
+
+        return get_cfg_var('otel.instrumentation.pdo.distribute_statement_to_linked_spans');
+    }
 }