diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e507b7e8..b102fc9a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@
 /.vscode/
 *.pyc
 .cache/
+.idea/
 *.iml
 /pybigquery.egg-info
 /dist
 /build
 env
+venv/
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index b618e3cb..ddfe8487 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ This will create a dataset ``test_pybigquery`` with tables named ``sample_one_ro
 
 Set up an environment and run tests::
 
-    pyvenv .env
+    python3 -m venv .env
     source .env/bin/activate
     pip install -r dev_requirements.txt
     pytest
diff --git a/dev_requirements.txt b/dev_requirements.txt
index b32e352b..909ba27e 100644
--- a/dev_requirements.txt
+++ b/dev_requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 sqlalchemy>=1.1.9
 google-cloud-bigquery>=1.6.0
+google-cloud-bigquery-storage==2.0.0
 future==0.16.0
+alembic==1.4.3
 
 pytest==3.2.2
 pytz==2017.2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pybigquery/sqlalchemy_bigquery.py b/pybigquery/sqlalchemy_bigquery.py
index 74573458..ef199e85 100644
--- a/pybigquery/sqlalchemy_bigquery.py
+++ b/pybigquery/sqlalchemy_bigquery.py
@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@
 
 from .parse_url import parse_url
 
+try:
+    import alembic
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+else:
+    from alembic.ddl import impl
+    class PyBigQueryImpl(impl.DefaultImpl):
+        __dialect__ = 'bigquery'
+
 FIELD_ILLEGAL_CHARACTERS = re.compile(r'[^\w]+')
 
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e7a3e90f..e662f9c5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ def readme():
         'sqlalchemy>=1.1.9',
         'google-cloud-bigquery>=1.6.0',
         'future',
+        'alembic==1.4.3'
     ],
     tests_require=[
+        'pytest',
         'pytz'
     ],
     entry_points={