diff --git a/sea-orm-cli/Cargo.toml b/sea-orm-cli/Cargo.toml
index 4c23912c5..484b6efbc 100644
--- a/sea-orm-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sea-orm-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,13 +22,16 @@ clap = { version = "^2.33.3" }
 dotenv = { version = "^0.15" }
 async-std = { version = "^1.9", features = [ "attributes" ] }
 sea-orm-codegen = { version = "^0.2.0", path = "../sea-orm-codegen" }
-sea-schema = { version = "^0.2.7", git = "https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-schema.git", default-features = false, features = [
+sea-schema = { version = "^0.2.8", git = "https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-schema.git", default-features = false, features = [
+    "debug-print",
     "sqlx-mysql",
     "sqlx-postgres",
     "discovery",
     "writer",
 ] }
 sqlx = { version = "^0.5", default-features = false, features = [ "mysql", "postgres" ] }
+env_logger = { version = "^0.9" }
+log = { version = "^0.4" }
 
 [features]
 default = [ "runtime-async-std-native-tls" ]
diff --git a/sea-orm-cli/src/cli.rs b/sea-orm-cli/src/cli.rs
index 400374c53..100c747cd 100644
--- a/sea-orm-cli/src/cli.rs
+++ b/sea-orm-cli/src/cli.rs
@@ -62,5 +62,13 @@ pub fn build_cli() -> App<'static, 'static> {
         .version(env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"))
         .setting(AppSettings::VersionlessSubcommands)
         .subcommand(entity_subcommand)
+        .arg(
+            Arg::with_name("VERBOSE")
+                .long("verbose")
+                .short("v")
+                .help("Show debug messages")
+                .takes_value(false)
+                .global(true),
+        )
         .setting(AppSettings::SubcommandRequiredElseHelp)
 }
diff --git a/sea-orm-cli/src/main.rs b/sea-orm-cli/src/main.rs
index 2f51aefbc..e7041ef01 100644
--- a/sea-orm-cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/sea-orm-cli/src/main.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 use clap::ArgMatches;
 use dotenv::dotenv;
+use log::LevelFilter;
 use sea_orm_codegen::{EntityTransformer, OutputFile};
 use std::{error::Error, fmt::Display, fs, io::Write, path::Path, process::Command};
 
@@ -33,6 +34,12 @@ async fn run_generate_command(matches: &ArgMatches<'_>) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Er
                     !table.starts_with("_")
                 }
             };
+            if args.is_present("VERBOSE") {
+                let _ = ::env_logger::builder()
+                    .filter_level(LevelFilter::Debug)
+                    .is_test(true)
+                    .try_init();
+            }
 
             let table_stmts = if url.starts_with("mysql://") {
                 use sea_schema::mysql::discovery::SchemaDiscovery;