diff --git a/types/sqlstring/index.d.ts b/types/sqlstring/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for sqlstring 2.2
+// Project: https://github.com/mysqljs/sqlstring
+// Definitions by: Marvin Hagemeister <https://github.com/marvinhagemeister>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.3
+
+export function format(sql: string, args: object | any[]): string;
+export function escape(value: any): string;
+export function escapeId(value: any, dotQualifier?: boolean): string;
diff --git a/types/sqlstring/sqlstring-tests.ts b/types/sqlstring/sqlstring-tests.ts
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+import * as SqlString from "sqlstring";
+
+// Code samples taken from:
+// https://github.com/mysqljs/sqlstring/blob/master/README.md
+
+const userId = "some user provided value";
+const sql1 = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = " + SqlString.escape(userId);
+
+const userId2 = 1;
+const sql2 = SqlString.format("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?", [userId2]);
+
+const userId3 = 1;
+const sql3 = SqlString.format(
+  "UPDATE users SET foo = ?, bar = ?, baz = ? WHERE id = ?",
+  ["a", "b", "c", userId3],
+);
+
+const post = { id: 1, title: "Hello MySQL" };
+const sql4 = SqlString.format("INSERT INTO posts SET ?", post);
+
+const sorter = "date";
+const sql5 =
+  "SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY " + SqlString.escapeId("posts." + sorter);
+
+const sorter2 = "date.2";
+const sql6 =
+  "SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY " + SqlString.escapeId(sorter2, true);
+
+const userId4 = 1;
+const inserts = ["users", "id", userId4];
+const sql7 = SqlString.format("SELECT * FROM ?? WHERE ?? = ?", inserts);
diff --git a/types/sqlstring/tsconfig.json b/types/sqlstring/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "sqlstring-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/sqlstring/tslint.json b/types/sqlstring/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }