diff --git a/drools-persistence/drools-persistence-jpa/pom.xml b/drools-persistence/drools-persistence-jpa/pom.xml
index 66a11c10bb3..8c2f145cb6a 100644
--- a/drools-persistence/drools-persistence-jpa/pom.xml
+++ b/drools-persistence/drools-persistence-jpa/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@
     <maven.jdbc.driver.jar/>
     <maven.jdbc.username/>
     <maven.jdbc.password/>
-    <maven.jdbc.url>jdbc:h2:mem:test</maven.jdbc.url>
+    <!-- appending ;MODE=LEGACY;OLD_INFORMATION_SCHEMA=TRUE to the jdbc url is necessary to workaround the problem reported at -->
+    <!-- https://github.com/h2database/h2database/issues/3325 -->
+    <maven.jdbc.url>jdbc:h2:mem:test;MODE=LEGACY;OLD_INFORMATION_SCHEMA=TRUE</maven.jdbc.url>
     <maven.jdbc.schema>public</maven.jdbc.schema>
   </properties>
 
diff --git a/drools-traits/pom.xml b/drools-traits/pom.xml
index 82fe29acb2a..c358382a01a 100644
--- a/drools-traits/pom.xml
+++ b/drools-traits/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@
     <maven.jdbc.driver.jar/>
     <maven.jdbc.username/>
     <maven.jdbc.password/>
-    <maven.jdbc.url>jdbc:h2:mem:test</maven.jdbc.url>
+    <!-- appending ;MODE=LEGACY;OLD_INFORMATION_SCHEMA=TRUE to the jdbc url is necessary to workaround the problem reported at -->
+    <!-- https://github.com/h2database/h2database/issues/3325 -->
+    <maven.jdbc.url>jdbc:h2:mem:test;MODE=LEGACY;OLD_INFORMATION_SCHEMA=TRUE</maven.jdbc.url>
     <maven.jdbc.schema>public</maven.jdbc.schema>
   </properties>
 
diff --git a/kie-test-util/src/main/java/org/kie/test/util/db/PersistenceUtil.java b/kie-test-util/src/main/java/org/kie/test/util/db/PersistenceUtil.java
index fed72fed6f6..08f8d2488ab 100644
--- a/kie-test-util/src/main/java/org/kie/test/util/db/PersistenceUtil.java
+++ b/kie-test-util/src/main/java/org/kie/test/util/db/PersistenceUtil.java
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ public static PoolingDataSourceWrapper setupPoolingDataSource(Properties dsProps
             String jdbcUrl = dsProps.getProperty("url");
             // fix an incomplete JDBC URL used by some tests
             if (jdbcUrl.startsWith("jdbc:h2:") && !jdbcUrl.contains("tcp://") && !jdbcUrl.contains("mem:")) {
-                dsProps.put("url", jdbcUrl + "tcp://localhost/target/./persistence-test");
+                dsProps.put("url", jdbcUrl + "tcp://localhost/target/./persistence-test;MODE=LEGACY;OLD_INFORMATION_SCHEMA=TRUE");
             }
             h2Server.start();
         }
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ private static Properties getDefaultProperties() {
         if (defaultProperties == null) {
             String[] keyArr = { "serverName", "portNumber", "databaseName", "url", "user", "password", "driverClassName",
                     "className", "maxPoolSize", "allowLocalTransactions" };
-            String[] defaultPropArr = { "", "", "", "jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/JPADroolsFlow", "sa", "", "org.h2.Driver",
+            String[] defaultPropArr = { "", "", "", "jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/JPADroolsFlow;MODE=LEGACY;OLD_INFORMATION_SCHEMA=TRUE", "sa", "", "org.h2.Driver",
                     "org.h2.jdbcx.JdbcDataSource", "16", "true" };
             if (keyArr.length != defaultPropArr.length) {
                 throw new IllegalStateException("Unequal number of keys for default properties!");
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ public void start() {
             if (realH2Server == null || !realH2Server.isRunning(false)) {
                 try {
                     DeleteDbFiles.execute("", "JPADroolsFlow", true);
-                    realH2Server = Server.createTcpServer(new String[0]);
+                    realH2Server = Server.createTcpServer(new String[]{"-ifNotExists"});
                     realH2Server.start();
                 } catch (SQLException e) {
                     throw new RuntimeException("Can't start h2 server db", e);