diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
index 7cc9ea50b0..0befe33877 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
@@ -16,27 +16,28 @@ jobs:
         run: exit 0
 
   unit-tests:
-    services:
-      sqlserver:
-        image: ${{ matrix.SQL }}
-        ports:
-          - 3306:3306
-        env:
-          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
-        options: ${{ matrix.SQL_OPTIONS }} --health-interval=10s --health-timeout=5s --health-retries=3
-    container:
-      image: domjudge/gitlabci:24.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
         PHPVERSION: [8.1]
         TEST: [Unit, E2E]
         CRAWL_SHADOW_MODE: [0]
         SQL_OPTIONS: [--health-cmd="healthcheck.sh --connect --innodb_initialized"]
+        SQL: mariadb
         #include:
         #  - PHPVERSION: 8.4
         #    TEST: Unit
         #    SQL: mysql
         #    SQL_OPTIONS: --health-cmd="mysqladmin ping"
+    services:
+      sqlserver:
+        image: ${{ matrix.SQL }}
+        ports:
+          - 3306:3306
+        env:
+          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
+        options: ${{ matrix.SQL_OPTIONS }} --health-interval=10s --health-timeout=5s --health-retries=3
+    container:
+      image: domjudge/gitlabci:24.04
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4