diff --git a/natives/json/json.c b/natives/json/json.c
index b4fcfabf..fdce15b7 100644
--- a/natives/json/json.c
+++ b/natives/json/json.c
@@ -498,7 +498,6 @@ static const char *encode_one(Encoder *e, Janet x, int depth) {
                 janet_indexed_view(x, &items, &len);
                 if (janet_buffer_push_u8(e->buffer, '[')) goto overflow;
                 e->indent++;
-                if ((err = encode_newline(e))) return err;
                 for (int32_t i = 0; i < len; i++) {
                     if ((err = encode_newline(e))) return err;
                     if ((err = encode_one(e, items[i], depth + 1)))
@@ -596,7 +595,7 @@ static const JanetReg cfuns[] = {
         "(json.decode json-source)\n\n"
         "Returns a janet object after parsing JSON."
     },
-    {NULL, NULL}
+    {NULL, NULL, NULL}
 };
 
 JANET_MODULE_ENTRY(JanetArgs args) {
diff --git a/natives/sqlite3/main.c b/natives/sqlite3/main.c
index 71da5582..53862626 100644
--- a/natives/sqlite3/main.c
+++ b/natives/sqlite3/main.c
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static const char *execute_collect(sqlite3_stmt *stmt, JanetArray *rows) {
                         break;
                     case SQLITE_TEXT:
                         {
-                            int nbytes = sqlite3_column_bytes(stmt, i) - 1;
+                            int nbytes = sqlite3_column_bytes(stmt, i);
                             uint8_t *str = janet_string_begin(nbytes);
                             memcpy(str, sqlite3_column_text(stmt, i), nbytes);
                             value = janet_wrap_string(janet_string_end(str));
@@ -384,12 +384,41 @@ static int sql_error_code(JanetArgs args) {
 /*****************************************************************************/
 
 static const JanetReg cfuns[] = {
-    {"open", sql_open},
-    {"close", sql_close},
-    {"eval", sql_eval},
-    {"last-insert-rowid", sql_last_insert_rowid},
-    {"error-code", sql_error_code},
-    {NULL, NULL}
+    {"open", sql_open, 
+        "(sqlite3.open path)\n\n"
+        "Opens a sqlite3 database on disk. Returns the database handle if the database was opened "
+        "successfully, and otheriwse throws an error."
+    },
+    {"close", sql_close, 
+        "(sqlite3.close db)\n\n"
+        "Closes a database. Use this to free a database after use. Returns nil."
+    },
+    {"eval", sql_eval, 
+        "(sqlite3.eval db sql [,params])\n\n"
+        "Evaluate sql in the context of database db. Multiple sql statements "
+        "can be changed together, and optionally parameters maybe passed in. "
+        "The optional parameters maybe either an indexed data type (tuple or array), or a dictionary "
+        "data type (struct or table). If params is a tuple or array, then sqlite "
+        "parameters are substituted using indices. For example:\n\n"
+        "\t(sqlite3.eval db `SELECT * FROM tab WHERE id = ?;` [123])\n\n"
+        "Will select rows from tab where id is equal to 123. Alternatively, "
+        "the programmer can use named parameters with tables or structs, like so:\n\n"
+        "\t(sqlite3.eval db `SELECT * FROM tab WHERE id = :id;` {:id 123})\n\n"
+        "Will return an array of rows, where each row contains a table where columns names "
+        "are keys for column values."
+    },
+    {"last-insert-rowid", sql_last_insert_rowid, 
+        "(sqlite3.last-insert-rowid db)\n\n"
+        "Returns the id of the last inserted row. If the id will fit into a 32-bit"
+        "signed integer, will returned an integer, otherwise will return a string representation "
+        "of the id (an 8 bytes string containing a long integer)."
+    },
+    {"error-code", sql_error_code,
+        "(sqlite3.error-code db)\n\n"
+        "Returns the error number of the last sqlite3 command that threw an error. Cross "
+        "check these numbers with the SQLite documentation for more information."
+    },
+    {NULL, NULL, NULL}
 };
 
 JANET_MODULE_ENTRY(JanetArgs args) {