diff --git a/serviceregistry-server/src/main/resources/application-test.yml b/serviceregistry-server/src/main/resources/application-test.yml
index 1b78797f..72354d28 100644
--- a/serviceregistry-server/src/main/resources/application-test.yml
+++ b/serviceregistry-server/src/main/resources/application-test.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spring:
       hibernate:
         dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
     hibernate:
-      ddl-auto: update
+      ddl-auto: validate
   security:
     user:
       name: ${ADMIN_API_USERNAME}