diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 55fc593..f842303 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -21,17 +21,7 @@ jobs:
           - x64
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - uses: getong/mariadb-action@v1.1
-        with:
-          host port: 3306 # Optional, default value is 3306. The port of host
-          container port: 3306 # Optional, default value is 3306. The port of container
-          character set server: 'utf8mb4' # Optional, default value is 'utf8mb4'. The '--character-set-server' option for mysqld
-          collation server: 'utf8mb4_general_ci' # Optional, default value is 'utf8mb4_general_ci'. The '--collation-server' option for mysqld
-          mariadb version: 'latest' # Optional, default value is "latest". The version of the MariaDB
-          mysql database: 'mysqltest' # Optional, default value is "test". The specified database which will be create
-          mysql root password: '' # Required if "mysql user" is empty, default is empty. The root superuser password
-          # mysql user: 'developer' # Required if "mysql root password" is empty, default is empty. The superuser for the specified database. Can use secrets, too
-          # mysql password: ${{ secrets.DatabasePassword }} # Required if "mysql user" exists. The password for the "mysql user"
+      - run: docker compose up -d
       - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
         with:
           version: ${{ matrix.version }}
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 1b88cde..c7a69e9 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "MySQL"
 uuid = "39abe10b-433b-5dbd-92d4-e302a9df00cd"
 author = ["quinnj"]
-version = "1.4.4"
+version = "1.4.5"
 
 [deps]
 DBInterface = "a10d1c49-ce27-4219-8d33-6db1a4562965"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e04febe..1d93b7e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,17 @@
 
 Package for interfacing with MySQL databases from Julia via the MariaDB C connector library, version 3.1.6.
 
-### Documentation
+## Documentation
 
 [![Stable](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-stable-blue.svg)](https://mysql.juliadatabases.org/stable)
 [![Dev](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-dev-blue.svg)](https://mysql.juliadatabases.org/dev)
+
+## Contributing
+
+The tests require a MySQL DB to be running, which is provided by Docker:
+
+```sh
+docker compose up -d
+julia --project -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test()'
+docker compose down
+```
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eea79f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+version: "3.9"
+name: "mysqljl-test"
+services:
+  db:
+    image: mysql:8
+    ports:
+      - 3306:3306
+    environment:
+      MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: true
+    healthcheck:
+      test:
+        [
+          "CMD",
+          "mysql",
+          "-u",
+          "root",
+          "-p''",
+          "--silent",
+          "--execute",
+          "SELECT 1;",
+        ]
+      interval: 30s
+      timeout: 10s
+      retries: 5
+    networks:
+      - app
+networks:
+  app:
+    driver: bridge
diff --git a/src/MySQL.jl b/src/MySQL.jl
index 92d62b8..8c2ccf6 100644
--- a/src/MySQL.jl
+++ b/src/MySQL.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 module MySQL
 
 using Dates, DBInterface, Tables, Parsers, DecFP
+import DBInterface: transaction
 
 export DBInterface, DateAndTime
 
diff --git a/src/load.jl b/src/load.jl
index 1aaa58e..c2cb869 100644
--- a/src/load.jl
+++ b/src/load.jl
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ function load(itr, conn::Connection, name::AbstractString="mysql_"*Random.randst
         DBInterface.execute(conn, "DELETE FROM $name")
     end
     # start a transaction for inserting rows
-    transaction(conn) do
+    DBInterface.transaction(conn) do
         params = chop(repeat("?,", length(sch.names)))
         stmt = DBInterface.prepare(conn, "INSERT INTO $name VALUES ($params)")
         for (i, row) in enumerate(rows)
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ function load(itr, conn::Connection, name::AbstractString="mysql_"*Random.randst
     return name
 end
 
-function transaction(f::Function, conn)
-    execute(conn, "START TRANSACTION")
+function DBInterface.transaction(f::Function, conn::Connection)
+    DBInterface.execute(conn, "START TRANSACTION")
     try
         f()
         API.commit(conn.mysql)
@@ -113,4 +113,4 @@ function transaction(f::Function, conn)
         API.rollback(conn.mysql)
         rethrow()
     end
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+end
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 9339aa6..bfd18b2 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -352,37 +352,46 @@ ret = columntable(res)
 @test_throws ArgumentError MySQL.load(ct, conn, "test194")
 
 @testset "transactions" begin
-    DBInterface.execute(conn, "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS TransactionTest")
-    DBInterface.execute(conn, "CREATE TABLE TransactionTest (a int)")
-
-    conn2 = DBInterface.connect(MySQL.Connection, "", ""; option_file=joinpath(dirname(pathof(MySQL)), "../test/", "my.ini"))
-
+    conn = DBInterface.connect(MySQL.Connection, "127.0.0.1", "root", ""; port=3306)
     try
-        # happy path
-        DBInterface.transaction(conn) do
-            DBInterface.execute(conn, "INSERT INTO TransactionTest (a) VALUES (1)")
-
-            # we can see the result inside our transaction
+        DBInterface.execute(conn, "DROP DATABASE if exists mysqltest")
+        DBInterface.execute(conn, "CREATE DATABASE mysqltest")
+        DBInterface.execute(conn, "use mysqltest")
+        DBInterface.execute(conn, "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS TransactionTest")
+        DBInterface.execute(conn, "CREATE TABLE TransactionTest (a int)")
+
+        conn2 = DBInterface.connect(MySQL.Connection, "127.0.0.1", "root", ""; port=3306)
+        DBInterface.execute(conn2, "use mysqltest")
+
+        try
+            # happy path
+            DBInterface.transaction(conn) do
+                DBInterface.execute(conn, "INSERT INTO TransactionTest (a) VALUES (1)")
+
+                # we can see the result inside our transaction
+                result = DBInterface.execute(conn, "SELECT * FROM TransactionTest") |> Tables.columntable
+                @test result.a == [1]
+
+                # and can't see it outside our transaction
+                result = DBInterface.execute(conn2, "SELECT * FROM TransactionTest") |> Tables.columntable
+                @test isempty(result.a)
+            end
             result = DBInterface.execute(conn, "SELECT * FROM TransactionTest") |> Tables.columntable
             @test result.a == [1]
-
-            # and can't see it outside our transaction
             result = DBInterface.execute(conn2, "SELECT * FROM TransactionTest") |> Tables.columntable
-            @test isempty(result.a)
-        end
-        result = DBInterface.execute(conn, "SELECT * FROM TransactionTest") |> Tables.columntable
-        @test result.a == [1]
-        result = DBInterface.execute(conn2, "SELECT * FROM TransactionTest") |> Tables.columntable
-        @test result.a == [1]
-
-        # roll back due to exception
-        @test_throws ErrorException DBInterface.transaction(conn) do
-            DBInterface.execute(conn, "INSERT INTO TransactionTest (a) VALUES (2)")
-            error("force rollback")
+            @test result.a == [1]
+
+            # roll back due to exception
+            @test_throws ErrorException DBInterface.transaction(conn) do
+                DBInterface.execute(conn, "INSERT INTO TransactionTest (a) VALUES (2)")
+                error("force rollback")
+            end
+            result = DBInterface.execute(conn, "SELECT * FROM TransactionTest") |> Tables.columntable
+            @test result.a == [1] # the table did not change
+        finally
+            DBInterface.close!(conn2)
         end
-        result = DBInterface.execute(conn, "SELECT * FROM TransactionTest") |> Tables.columntable
-        @test result.a == [1] # the table did not change
     finally
-        close(conn2)
+        DBInterface.close!(conn)
     end
 end