diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index db96ae29f4c..6da5755517b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -643,6 +643,11 @@
             <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
+            <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
@@ -855,6 +860,7 @@
             <id>tc</id>
             <properties>
                 <skipUnitTests>true</skipUnitTests>
+                <postgresql.server.version>9.6</postgresql.server.version>
             </properties>
             <build>
                 <plugins>
@@ -864,6 +870,9 @@
                         <version>2.22.2</version>
                         <configuration>
                             <groups>testcontainers</groups>
+                            <systemPropertyVariables>
+                                <postgresql.server.version>${postgresql.server.version}</postgresql.server.version>
+                            </systemPropertyVariables>
                         </configuration>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/settings/source/DbSettingConfigSource.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/settings/source/DbSettingConfigSource.java
index 1820d246859..5038e5c7714 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/settings/source/DbSettingConfigSource.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/settings/source/DbSettingConfigSource.java
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ public DbSettingConfigSource() {
         }
     }
     
+    // Test usage (no JNDI context)
+    public DbSettingConfigSource(DataSource ds) {
+        dataSource = ds;
+        updateProperties();
+    }
+    
     public void updateProperties() {
         // Do brutal JDBC retrieval over the wire, to be available right from the start of app deployment.
         // Injecting the EntityManager or the SettingsServiceBean is hard, as MPCONFIG sources are POJOs.
@@ -42,7 +48,7 @@ public void updateProperties() {
             final ResultSet props = query.executeQuery();
         
             while (props.next()) {
-                propertiesCache.put(PREFIX+"."+props.getString(0), props.getString(1));
+                propertiesCache.put(PREFIX+"."+props.getString(1), props.getString(2));
             }
             lastUpdate = Instant.now();
         
@@ -70,7 +76,7 @@ public Set<String> getPropertyNames() {
     
     @Override
     public int getOrdinal() {
-        return 0;
+        return 50;
     }
     
     @Override
diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/settings/source/DbSettingConfigSourceIT.java b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/settings/source/DbSettingConfigSourceIT.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5a31c815e6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/settings/source/DbSettingConfigSourceIT.java
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.settings.source;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Tag;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.postgresql.ds.PGSimpleDataSource;
+import org.testcontainers.containers.JdbcDatabaseContainer;
+import org.testcontainers.containers.PostgreSQLContainer;
+import org.testcontainers.junit.jupiter.Container;
+import org.testcontainers.junit.jupiter.Testcontainers;
+
+import javax.naming.Context;
+import javax.naming.InitialContext;
+import javax.naming.NamingException;
+import javax.sql.DataSource;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
+
+@Testcontainers
+@Tag("testcontainers")
+class DbSettingConfigSourceTest {
+
+    @Container
+    static JdbcDatabaseContainer dbContainer = new PostgreSQLContainer("postgres:"+System.getProperty("postgresql.server.version", "9.6"))
+                                                        .withInitScript("sql/dbsetting-config-source-testdata.sql")
+                                                        .withDatabaseName("dataverse");
+    
+    static DbSettingConfigSource dbSource;
+    
+    @BeforeAll
+    static void setUp() throws NamingException {
+        // create the datasource
+        PGSimpleDataSource ds = new PGSimpleDataSource();
+        ds.setURL(dbContainer.getJdbcUrl());
+        ds.setUser(dbContainer.getUsername());
+        ds.setPassword(dbContainer.getPassword());
+        
+        // create the config source
+        dbSource = new DbSettingConfigSource(ds);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    void testDataRetrieval() {
+        assertEquals("foobar@example.org", dbSource.getValue("dataverse.settings.fromdb.SystemEmail"));
+    }
+
+}
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diff --git a/src/test/resources/sql/dbsetting-config-source-testdata.sql b/src/test/resources/sql/dbsetting-config-source-testdata.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c55162d8707
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/sql/dbsetting-config-source-testdata.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+CREATE TABLE Setting (
+    id            char(5) CONSTRAINT firstkey PRIMARY KEY,
+    name          varchar(40) NOT NULL,
+    content       varchar(40) NOT NULL,
+    lang          varchar(40) DEFAULT NULL
+);
+
+INSERT INTO Setting (id, name, content)
+    VALUES
+        (1, 'SystemEmail', 'foobar@example.org')
+    ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;
\ No newline at end of file