diff --git a/src/dbup-sqlite/Helpers/InMemorySQLiteDatabase.cs b/src/dbup-sqlite/Helpers/InMemorySQLiteDatabase.cs
index c58e744..2985b19 100644
--- a/src/dbup-sqlite/Helpers/InMemorySQLiteDatabase.cs
+++ b/src/dbup-sqlite/Helpers/InMemorySQLiteDatabase.cs
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ public InMemorySQLiteDatabase()
             {
                 DataSource = ":memory:",
                 DefaultTimeout = 5,
-                Mode = SqliteOpenMode.Memory,
-                ConnectionString = "PRAGMA encoding='UTF-16'; PRAGMA journal_mode='MEMORY';"
+                Mode = SqliteOpenMode.Memory
             };
             ConnectionString = connectionStringBuilder.ToString();