diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 94567fb2a0c8c78dabd895ba2277fad69106e65a..dce5103dc55a902208e37b59d47b558ba2f6244b 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ unittests:
     - echo 'DATABASE_USER_HOST_LIST="%,"' >> .config
     - echo "MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD=$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD" >> .config
     - echo "MYSQL_HOST=mariadb" >> .config
-    - ./utils/make_db test-connection
-    - ./utils/make_db test --fresh
+    - ./utils/make_db restore tests/example.dump.sql
+    - ./tests/test_utils.sh
 
 # Build a docker image in which tests for this repository can run
 build-testenv:
diff --git a/tests/test_utils.sh b/tests/test_utils.sh
index 5872e8f44662b63a3df030b612ef18a8dd35aaaf..ca2369cf7f9ceadb3548e476ee49302faa12c038 100755
--- a/tests/test_utils.sh
+++ b/tests/test_utils.sh
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ BACKUPDIR=$backupdir $UTILSPATH/backup.sh > /dev/null
 echo '[Ok]'
 # run normal tests
 echo -n 'running sql tests... '
-$UTILSPATH/make_db test > /dev/null
+$UTILSPATH/make_db test --fresh
 echo '[Ok]'
 
 echo -n 'creating secondary dump... '