diff --git a/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQueryResultSetImpl.java b/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQueryResultSetImpl.java
index cfb5db442..faaacd835 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQueryResultSetImpl.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQueryResultSetImpl.java
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@
 package com.google.cloud.bigquery;
 
 import com.google.api.services.bigquery.model.TableRow;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.Reader;
 import java.math.BigDecimal;
 import java.sql.*;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -31,7 +29,7 @@ public class BigQueryResultSetImpl<T> extends AbstractJdbcResultSet
   private final Schema schema;
   private final long totalRows;
   // private final ResultSet nextRow;
-  private final Map<String, String> nameType;
+  private final Map<String, String> nameType; // TODO: Remove
   private final BlockingQueue<T> buffer; // TableRow
   private T cursor;
 
@@ -79,197 +77,98 @@ public Object getObject(String fieldName) throws SQLException {
     if (cursor instanceof TableRow) {
       TableRow currentRow = (TableRow) cursor;
       if (currentRow == null) {
-        throw new SQLException("No rows left"); // TODO rephrase exception message
+        throw new SQLException("No rows left");
       }
       return currentRow.get(fieldName);
     }
-    // TODO: Add similar clauses for Apache Arrow and Avro
+    // TODO: Add similar clauses for Apache Arrow
     return null;
   }
 
   @Override
   public String getString(String fieldName) throws SQLException {
     Object value = getObject(fieldName);
-    if (value == null || !(value instanceof String)) {
-      return null;
+    if (value == null) {
+      throw new SQLException("fieldName can't be null");
+    } else if (!(value instanceof String)) {
+      throw new SQLException("value not in instance of String");
     } else {
       return (String) value;
     }
   }
 
-  /** ****TODO Methods - to be impemented****** */
   @Override
-  public long getLong(String columnLabel) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public float getFloat(String columnLabel) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public double getDouble(String columnLabel) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public BigDecimal getBigDecimal(String columnLabel, int scale) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public void close() throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public boolean wasNull() throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public String getString(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public boolean getBoolean(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public byte getByte(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public short getShort(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public int getInt(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public long getLong(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public float getFloat(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public double getDouble(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public BigDecimal getBigDecimal(int columnIndex, int scale) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public byte[] getBytes(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public Date getDate(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public Time getTime(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public Timestamp getTimestamp(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public InputStream getAsciiStream(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public InputStream getUnicodeStream(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public InputStream getBinaryStream(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
+  public long getLong(String fieldName) throws SQLException {
+    Object value = getObject(fieldName);
+    if (value == null) {
+      throw new SQLException("fieldName can't be null");
+    } else if (!(value instanceof Long)) {
+      throw new SQLException("value not in instance of Long");
+    } else {
+      return Long.parseLong(String.valueOf(value));
+    }
   }
 
   @Override
-  public int findColumn(String columnLabel) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
+  public double getDouble(String fieldName) throws SQLException {
+    Object value = getObject(fieldName);
+    if (value == null) {
+      throw new SQLException("fieldName can't be null");
+    } else if (!(value instanceof Double)) {
+      throw new SQLException("value not in instance of Double");
+    } else {
+      return Double.parseDouble(String.valueOf(value));
+    }
   }
 
   @Override
-  public Reader getCharacterStream(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
+  public BigDecimal getBigDecimal(String fieldName) throws SQLException {
+    Object value = getObject(fieldName);
+    if (value == null) {
+      throw new SQLException("fieldName can't be null");
+    } else if (!(value instanceof Long
+        || value instanceof Double
+        || value instanceof BigDecimal
+        || value instanceof String)) {
+      throw new SQLException("value cannot be converted to BigDecimal");
+    } else {
+      return new BigDecimal(String.valueOf(value));
+    }
   }
 
   @Override
-  public Reader getCharacterStream(String columnLabel) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
+  public boolean getBoolean(String fieldName) throws SQLException {
+    Object value = getObject(fieldName);
+    if (value == null) {
+      throw new SQLException("fieldName can't be null");
+    } else if (!(value instanceof Boolean || (value instanceof String))) {
+      throw new SQLException("value not in instance of Boolean");
+    } else {
+      return Boolean.parseBoolean(String.valueOf(value));
+    }
   }
 
   @Override
-  public BigDecimal getBigDecimal(int columnIndex) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
+  public byte getByte(String fieldName) throws SQLException {
+    Object value = getObject(fieldName);
+    if (value == null) {
+      throw new SQLException("fieldName can't be null");
+    } else if (!(value instanceof Byte || (value instanceof String))) {
+      throw new SQLException("value not in instance of Boolean");
+    } else {
+      return Byte.parseByte(String.valueOf(value));
+    }
   }
 
   @Override
-  public BigDecimal getBigDecimal(String columnLabel) throws SQLException {
-    // TODO: Implement the logic
-    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented");
-  }
-
-  /*
-    TODO: Create methods to meet the following signature?
-    while(resultSet.next()) {
-
-      resultSet.getString    ("name");
-      resultSet.getInt       ("age");
-      resultSet.getBigDecimal("coefficient");
-
-      // etc.
+  public Timestamp getTimestamp(String fieldName) throws SQLException {
+    Object value = getObject(fieldName);
+    if (value == null) {
+      throw new SQLException("fieldName can't be null");
+    } else if (!(value instanceof Long || value instanceof Timestamp || value instanceof String)) {
+      throw new SQLException("value cannot be converted to Timestamp");
+    } else {
+      return Timestamp.valueOf(String.valueOf(value));
+    }
   }
-     */
-
 }