diff --git a/dbunit/src/test/java/com/baeldung/dbunit/DataSourceDBUnitTest.java b/dbunit/src/test/java/com/baeldung/dbunit/DataSourceDBUnitTest.java
index c8045394c4..d30305ecf2 100644
--- a/dbunit/src/test/java/com/baeldung/dbunit/DataSourceDBUnitTest.java
+++ b/dbunit/src/test/java/com/baeldung/dbunit/DataSourceDBUnitTest.java
@@ -55,4 +55,22 @@ public class DataSourceDBUnitTest extends DataSourceBasedDBTestCase {
         ITable actualTable = databaseDataSet.getTable("CLIENTS");
         Assertion.assertEquals(expectedTable, actualTable);
     }
+
+
+    @Test
+    public void testAssertByQuery() throws Exception {
+        IDataSet expectedDataSet = new FlatXmlDataSetBuilder().build(getClass()
+                .getClassLoader()
+                .getResourceAsStream("expected-user.xml"));
+        ITable expectedTable = expectedDataSet.getTable("CLIENTS");
+        Connection conn = getDataSource().getConnection();
+        conn.createStatement()
+                .executeUpdate(
+                        "INSERT INTO CLIENTS (first_name, last_name) VALUES ('John', 'Jansen')");
+        ITable actualData = getConnection()
+                .createQueryTable(
+                        "result_name",
+                        "SELECT * FROM CLIENTS WHERE id='2'");
+        Assertion.assertEqualsIgnoreCols(expectedTable, actualData, new String[]{"id"});
+    }
 }
diff --git a/dbunit/src/test/resources/expected-user.xml b/dbunit/src/test/resources/expected-user.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..379db13601
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dbunit/src/test/resources/expected-user.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<dataset>
+    <CLIENTS id='1' first_name='John' last_name='Jansen'/>
+</dataset>
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