diff --git a/docs/topics/databases.rst b/docs/topics/databases.rst
index e0d2c4af..ce0be99e 100644
--- a/docs/topics/databases.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/databases.rst
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ call it with ``database_sync_to_async`` like so:
     from channels.db import database_sync_to_async
 
     async def connect(self):
-        self.username = await database_sync_to_async(self.get_name)()
+        self.username = await database_sync_to_async(get_name)()
 
     def get_name(self):
         return User.objects.all()[0].name
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ You can also use it as a decorator:
     from channels.db import database_sync_to_async
 
     async def connect(self):
-        self.username = await self.get_name()
+        self.username = await get_name()
 
     @database_sync_to_async
     def get_name(self):
@@ -78,4 +78,4 @@ by a channels layer event and needs to make a few ORM queries to determine
 what to send to the client. This function should be called *before* making
 those queries. Calling this function more than necessary is not necessarily
 a bad thing, but it does require a context switch to synchronous code and
-so incurs a small penalty.
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+so incurs a small penalty.