diff --git a/src/test/java/main/StartMyServer.java b/src/test/java/main/StartMyServer.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..de04e1625
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/main/StartMyServer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package main;
+
+import io.ebean.docker.commands.MySqlConfig;
+import io.ebean.docker.commands.MySqlContainer;
+
+public class StartMyServer {
+
+  public static void main(String[] args) {
+
+    MySqlConfig config = new MySqlConfig("5.7");
+    config.setDbName("unit");
+    config.setUser("unit");
+    config.setPassword("unit");
+
+    // by default this mysql docker collation is case sensitive
+    // using utf8mb4_bin
+    //
+    // when changing to a CI collation (e.g. utf8mb4_unicode_ci) we also set
+    // ebean.<db>.caseSensitiveCollation=false
+    // ... such that tests now take that into account
+//    config.setCollation("default");
+//    config.setCollation("utf8mb4_unicode_ci");
+//    config.setCharacterSet("utf8mb4");
+
+    MySqlContainer container = new MySqlContainer(config);
+    container.start();
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/main/StartSqlServer.java b/src/test/java/main/StartSqlServer.java
index a158133ae..7eea22376 100644
--- a/src/test/java/main/StartSqlServer.java
+++ b/src/test/java/main/StartSqlServer.java
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ public class StartSqlServer {
     // when changing to a CI collation also use
     // ebean.sqlserver.caseSensitiveCollation=false
     // ... such that tests now take that into account
+
+    //config.setCollation("default");
     //config.setCollation("Latin1_General_100_CI");
 
     SqlServerContainer container = new SqlServerContainer(config);
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/tests/query/other/TestWhereLikeWithSlash.java b/src/test/java/org/tests/query/other/TestWhereLikeWithSlash.java
index f08e57eec..328682e7a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/tests/query/other/TestWhereLikeWithSlash.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/tests/query/other/TestWhereLikeWithSlash.java
@@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ public class TestWhereLikeWithSlash extends BaseTestCase {
     Query<EBasic> query1 = Ebean.find(EBasic.class).where().like("name", "slash\\mon%").query();
     List<EBasic> list1 = query1.findList();
 
-    // This doesn't work in the latest version of H2 so disable for now.
-    // Still good on Postgres which was the original issue
-    assertEquals(1, list1.size());
-
+    if (!isMySql()) {
+      // For mysql this assert depends on no_backslash_escapes setting so we won't assert here
+      // Still good on Postgres which was the original issue
+      assertEquals(1, list1.size());
+    }
   }
 
   @Test
diff --git a/src/test/resources/ebean.properties b/src/test/resources/ebean.properties
index 3943c47f4..43fd2954c 100644
--- a/src/test/resources/ebean.properties
+++ b/src/test/resources/ebean.properties
@@ -131,10 +131,10 @@ datasource.hsqldb.databaseDriver=org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
 
 # Set caseSensitiveCollation to false when using
 # MySql with case insenstive collation
-ebean.mysql.caseSensitiveCollation=false
+#ebean.mysql.caseSensitiveCollation=false
 datasource.mysql.username=unit
 datasource.mysql.password=unit
-datasource.mysql.databaseUrl=jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/unit
+datasource.mysql.databaseUrl=jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:4306/unit
 #datasource.mysql.username=test_ebean
 #datasource.mysql.password=test
 #datasource.mysql.databaseUrl=jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:4306/test_ebean