diff --git a/beast/config/ConfigCheck.h b/beast/config/ConfigCheck.h
index 7ee5955762..d92eaff01d 100644
--- a/beast/config/ConfigCheck.h
+++ b/beast/config/ConfigCheck.h
@@ -81,6 +81,10 @@
 #define BEAST_ZLIB_INCLUDE_PATH <zlib.h>
 #endif
 
+#ifndef BEAST_SQLITE_FORCE_NDEBUG
+#define BEAST_SQLITE_FORCE_NDEBUG 0
+#endif
+
 #ifndef BEAST_STRING_UTF_TYPE
 #define BEAST_STRING_UTF_TYPE 8
 #endif
diff --git a/config/BeastConfig.h b/config/BeastConfig.h
index ee6a48375a..ca4b091933 100644
--- a/config/BeastConfig.h
+++ b/config/BeastConfig.h
@@ -107,6 +107,13 @@
 #define BEAST_ZLIB_INCLUDE_PATH <zlib.h>
 #endif
 
+/** Config: BEAST_SQLITE_FORCE_NDEBUG
+    Setting this option forces sqlite into release mode even if NDEBUG is not set
+*/
+#ifndef   BEAST_SQLITE_FORCE_NDEBUG
+//#define BEAST_SQLITE_FORCE_NDEBUG 1
+#endif
+
 /** Config: BEAST_FUNCTIONAL_USES_###
     <functional> source configuration.
     Set one of these to manually force a particular implementation of bind().
diff --git a/modules/beast_sqlite/beast_sqlite.c b/modules/beast_sqlite/beast_sqlite.c
index 99ef158676..ba827418bb 100644
--- a/modules/beast_sqlite/beast_sqlite.c
+++ b/modules/beast_sqlite/beast_sqlite.c
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@
 */
 //#define SQLITE_THREADSAFE 2
 
+#if defined (BEAST_SQLITE_USE_NDEBUG) && BEAST_SQLITE_USE_NDEBUG && !defined (NDEBUG)
+#define NDEBUG
+#endif
+
 #include "sqlite/sqlite3.c"
 
 #if BEAST_MSVC