diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5728b3f762..49766bb632 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ before_script:
   - evennia migrate
   - evennia collectstatic --noinput
   - mysql -u root -e "SHOW TABLE STATUS;" evennia
+  - mysql -u root -e "SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM accounts_accountdb;" evennia
+  - mysql -u root -e "SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM accounts_accountdb_user_permissions;" evennia
 
 script:
   - coverage run --source=../evennia --omit=*/migrations/*,*/urls.py,*/test*.py,*.sh,*.txt,*.md,*.pyc,*.service ../bin/unix/evennia test --settings=settings --keepdb evennia