diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 2a7eb0d93..840a313f8 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ language: java
 dist: xenial
 jdk:
   - oraclejdk8
-  - openjdk8
+  - openjdk9
   - oraclejdk11
   - openjdk11
   
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ addons:
   mariadb: '10.0'
   
 services:
-  - mysql
+  # - mysql
   - postgresql 
 
 env:
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ env:
 before_install:
   - wget -O ~/codacy-coverage-reporter-assembly-latest.jar https://github.com/codacy/codacy-coverage-reporter/releases/download/2.0.0/codacy-coverage-reporter-2.0.0-assembly.jar
   # create test database for mysql, mariadb and postgresql
-  - mysql -u root -e 'CREATE DATABASE test_db;'
-  - mysql -u root test_db < extensions/database/tests/conf/travis-mysql.sql
+  # mysql is currently disabled: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/2043
+  #- mysql -u root -e 'CREATE DATABASE test_db;'
+  #- mysql -u root test_db < extensions/database/tests/conf/travis-mysql.sql
   - psql -c 'CREATE DATABASE test_db;' -U postgres
   - psql -U postgres test_db < extensions/database/tests/conf/travis-pgsql.sql
   - cp extensions/database/tests/conf/travis_tests.xml extensions/database/tests/conf/tests.xml
diff --git a/extensions/database/tests/conf/travis_tests.xml b/extensions/database/tests/conf/travis_tests.xml
index fcf2204bf..f58a0ae09 100644
--- a/extensions/database/tests/conf/travis_tests.xml
+++ b/extensions/database/tests/conf/travis_tests.xml
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@
     <parameter name = "mariaDbPassword" value=""/>
     <parameter name = "mariaDbTestTable" value="test_table"/>
 	<test name="DatabaseExtensionUnitTest">
+        <!-- Temporarily exclude MySQL from Travis tests until MySQL is working on Travis again. --> 
+        <!-- See https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/2043 -->
+        <groups>
+            <run>
+                <exclude name="requiresMySQL"/>
+            </run>
+        </groups> 
 		<classes>
 			<class name="com.google.refine.extension.database.DatabaseImportControllerTest"/>
 			<class name="com.google.refine.extension.database.DatabaseServiceTest"/>
@@ -38,4 +45,4 @@
 			<class name="com.google.refine.extension.database.pgsql.PgSQLDatabaseServiceTest" />
 		</classes>
 	</test>
-</suite>
\ No newline at end of file
+</suite>