diff --git a/R/default.R b/R/default.R
index 532ba00f..f848e1fe 100644
--- a/R/default.R
+++ b/R/default.R
@@ -42,5 +42,10 @@ mariadbDefault <- function() {
 }
 
 mariadb_default <- function(...) {
-  dbConnect(MariaDB(), dbname = "test", ...)
+  rlang::inject(dbConnect(MariaDB(), !!!mariadb_default_args, ...))
 }
+
+mariadb_default_args <- as.list(c(
+  dbname = "test",
+  NULL
+))
diff --git a/tests/testthat/helper-DBItest.R b/tests/testthat/helper-DBItest.R
index de6b76f6..8c65f102 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/helper-DBItest.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/helper-DBItest.R
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 DBItest::make_context(
   MariaDB(),
-  list(
-    dbname = "test",
-    load_data_local_infile = (Sys.getenv("RMARIADB_LOAD_DATA_LOCAL_INFILE") != "")
+  c(
+    mariadb_default_args,
+    list(load_data_local_infile = (Sys.getenv("RMARIADB_LOAD_DATA_LOCAL_INFILE") != ""))
   ),
   tweaks = DBItest::tweaks(
     dbitest_version = "1.7.2",