diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9b1519655d..343884b7c5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1981,6 +1981,7 @@ dynamicQuery[Person].insert(setOpt(_.name, Some("John")))
 
 // it's also possible to use a runtime string value as the column name
 dynamicQuery[Person].update(set("name", quote("John")))
+dynamicQuery[Person].update(setOpt("name", Some("John")))
 
 // to insert or update a case class instance, use `insertValue`/`updateValue`
 val p = Person(0, "John", 21)
@@ -3319,4 +3320,4 @@ The project was created having Philip Wadler's talk ["A practical theory of lang
 
 * [A Practical Theory of Language-Integrated Query](http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/slindley/papers/practical-theory-of-linq.pdf)
 * [Everything old is new again: Quoted Domain Specific Languages](http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/qdsl/qdsl.pdf)
-* [The Flatter, the Better](http://db.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/staticfiles/publications/the-flatter-the-better.pdf)
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+* [The Flatter, the Better](http://db.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/staticfiles/publications/the-flatter-the-better.pdf)
diff --git a/quill-core/src/main/scala/io/getquill/dsl/DynamicQueryDSL.scala b/quill-core/src/main/scala/io/getquill/dsl/DynamicQueryDSL.scala
index 10583197c2..53e5a6d69a 100644
--- a/quill-core/src/main/scala/io/getquill/dsl/DynamicQueryDSL.scala
+++ b/quill-core/src/main/scala/io/getquill/dsl/DynamicQueryDSL.scala
@@ -88,6 +88,12 @@ trait DynamicQueryDsl {
       case Some(v) => setValue(property, v)
       case None    => DynamicSetEmpty()
     }
+  
+  def setOpt[T, U](property: String, value: Option[U])(implicit enc: Encoder[U]): DynamicSet[T, U] =
+    value match {
+      case Some(v) => setValue(property, v)
+      case None    => DynamicSetEmpty()
+    }
 
   def set[T, U](property: String, value: Quoted[U]): DynamicSet[T, U] =
     set((f: Quoted[T]) => splice(Property(f.ast, property)), value)