diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3cf629e6..634b7401 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "butane_core",
  "proc-macro2 1.0.79",
  "quote 1.0.35",
+ "serde_variant",
  "syn 2.0.58",
 ]
 
@@ -326,7 +327,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "sqlparser",
- "strum",
  "syn 2.0.58",
  "tempfile",
  "thiserror",
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ version = "4.5.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "528131438037fd55894f62d6e9f068b8f45ac57ffa77517819645d10aed04f64"
 dependencies = [
- "heck 0.5.0",
+ "heck",
  "proc-macro2 1.0.79",
  "quote 1.0.35",
  "syn 2.0.58",
@@ -952,12 +952,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "hashbrown",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "heck"
-version = "0.4.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "95505c38b4572b2d910cecb0281560f54b440a19336cbbcb27bf6ce6adc6f5a8"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "heck"
 version = "0.5.0"
@@ -1669,6 +1663,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "serde_variant"
+version = "0.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0a0068df419f9d9b6488fdded3f1c818522cdea328e02ce9d9f147380265a432"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "sha1_smol"
 version = "1.0.0"
@@ -1761,28 +1764,6 @@ version = "0.11.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7da8b5736845d9f2fcb837ea5d9e2628564b3b043a70948a3f0b778838c5fb4f"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "strum"
-version = "0.26.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5d8cec3501a5194c432b2b7976db6b7d10ec95c253208b45f83f7136aa985e29"
-dependencies = [
- "strum_macros",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "strum_macros"
-version = "0.26.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c6cf59daf282c0a494ba14fd21610a0325f9f90ec9d1231dea26bcb1d696c946"
-dependencies = [
- "heck 0.4.1",
- "proc-macro2 1.0.79",
- "quote 1.0.35",
- "rustversion",
- "syn 2.0.58",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "subtle"
 version = "2.5.0"
diff --git a/butane_codegen/Cargo.toml b/butane_codegen/Cargo.toml
index 7fa5871a..822098a0 100644
--- a/butane_codegen/Cargo.toml
+++ b/butane_codegen/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ uuid = ["butane_core/uuid"]
 butane_core = { workspace = true }
 proc-macro2 = { workspace = true }
 quote = { workspace = true }
+serde_variant = "0.1.3"
 syn = { workspace = true }
 
 [lib]
diff --git a/butane_codegen/src/lib.rs b/butane_codegen/src/lib.rs
index 4f327935..f4782f8e 100644
--- a/butane_codegen/src/lib.rs
+++ b/butane_codegen/src/lib.rs
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ pub fn derive_field_type(input: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
 }
 
 fn derive_field_type_for_newtype(ident: &Ident, sqltype: SqlType) -> TokenStream {
-    let sqltype_name: &'static str = sqltype.clone().into();
+    let sqltype_name = serde_variant::to_variant_name(&sqltype).unwrap();
     let sqltype_ident = syn::Ident::new(sqltype_name, proc_macro2::Span::call_site());
 
     let mut migrations = migrations_for_dir();
diff --git a/butane_core/Cargo.toml b/butane_core/Cargo.toml
index 0b45b9bf..8aaebd05 100644
--- a/butane_core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/butane_core/Cargo.toml
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ regex = { version = "1.5", features = ["std"] }
 rusqlite = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 serde = { features = ["derive"], workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
-strum = { version = "0.26", features = ["derive"] }
 sqlparser = { workspace = true }
 syn = { workspace = true }
 thiserror = "1.0"
diff --git a/butane_core/src/lib.rs b/butane_core/src/lib.rs
index d869259f..7213c4e0 100644
--- a/butane_core/src/lib.rs
+++ b/butane_core/src/lib.rs
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ impl From<rusqlite::types::FromSqlError> for Error {
 /// Enumeration of the types a database value may take.
 ///
 /// See also [`SqlVal`].
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Eq, PartialEq, Serialize, strum::IntoStaticStr)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Eq, PartialEq, Serialize)]
 pub enum SqlType {
     /// Boolean
     Bool,