diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 0f855f3..02cb33c 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Foo.
 
 {{$NEXT}}
 
+  - Minor MySQL storage fixup
+
 0.10      2012-05-08 09:43:54 Europe/Berlin
 
   - MySQL storage: more documentation and minor
diff --git a/dist.ini b/dist.ini
index d2be162..982d210 100644
--- a/dist.ini
+++ b/dist.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name    = ShardedKV
-version = 0.10
+version = 0.11
 author  = Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>
 author  = Nick Perez <nperez@cpan.org>
 license = Perl_5
diff --git a/lib/ShardedKV/Storage/MySQL.pm b/lib/ShardedKV/Storage/MySQL.pm
index 39b6705..cffca1d 100644
--- a/lib/ShardedKV/Storage/MySQL.pm
+++ b/lib/ShardedKV/Storage/MySQL.pm
@@ -217,11 +217,16 @@ has '_number_of_params' => (
   builder => '_calc_no_params',
 );
 
+sub BUILD {
+  $_[0]->_number_of_params;
+};
+
 sub _calc_no_params {
   my $self = shift;
   return 1 + scalar(@{$self->value_col_names});
 }
 
+
 sub _make_get_query {
   my $self = shift;
   $self->_number_of_params; # prepopulate