diff --git a/invisible_cities/database/db_connection.py b/invisible_cities/database/db_connection.py
index b401cdbe39..be5a8b2d6c 100644
--- a/invisible_cities/database/db_connection.py
+++ b/invisible_cities/database/db_connection.py
@@ -17,3 +17,10 @@ def connect_mysql(dbname):
                                   user='nextreader',passwd='readonly', db=dbname)
     cursor_mysql  = conn_mysql .cursor()
     return connect_mysql, cursor_mysql
+
+@mark.skip(reason='server timeouts cause too many spurious test failures')
+def connect_dolt_mysql(dbname):
+    conn_mysql  = pymysql.connect(host="next.ific.uv.es", port=3307,
+                                  user='nextreader',passwd='readonly', db=dbname)
+    cursor_mysql  = conn_mysql .cursor()
+    return connect_mysql, cursor_mysql
diff --git a/invisible_cities/database/download.py b/invisible_cities/database/download.py
index 844425e94f..9ddd5c32b8 100644
--- a/invisible_cities/database/download.py
+++ b/invisible_cities/database/download.py
@@ -5,11 +5,13 @@
 import os
 import re
 from os import path
+from datetime import datetime
 
 # Absolute imports to allow usage as standalone program:
 # python invisible_cities/database/download.py
 from invisible_cities.database.db_connection import connect_sqlite
 from invisible_cities.database.db_connection import connect_mysql
+from invisible_cities.database.db_connection import connect_dolt_mysql
 
 
 def create_table_sqlite(cursorSqlite, cursorMySql, table):
@@ -70,6 +72,27 @@ def loadDB(dbname : str, tables : list):
         # Copy data
         copy_all_rows(conn_sqlite, cursor_sqlite, cursor_mysql, table)
 
+def write_db_version(dbname: str):
+    dbfile = path.join(os.environ['ICDIR'], 'database/localdb.'+dbname+'.sqlite3')
+    try:
+        conn_mysql , cursor_mysql  = connect_dolt_mysql(dbname)
+    except pymysql.err.OperationalError:
+        print(f"DB versioning not implemented for database {dbname}")
+        return
+    conn_sqlite, cursor_sqlite = connect_sqlite(dbfile)
+    sql = 'select commit_hash, date from dolt_diff order by date desc limit 1'
+    cursor_mysql.execute(sql)
+    data = cursor_mysql.fetchall()
+    if len(data) == 1:
+        db_version = data[0][0]
+        date = data[0][1]
+        timestamp = datetime.timestamp(date)
+        sql_table = "create table db_version(version VARCHAR(20), date timestamp null)"
+        cursor_sqlite.execute(sql_table)
+        sql_value = f'insert into db_version (version, date) values ("{db_version}", {timestamp})'
+        cursor_sqlite.execute(sql_value)
+        conn_sqlite.commit()
+
 
 dbnames        = ('NEWDB', 'DEMOPPDB', 'NEXT100DB', 'Flex100DB')
 common_tables  = ('DetectorGeo','PmtBlr','ChannelGain','ChannelMapping','ChannelMask',
@@ -85,6 +108,8 @@ def loadDB(dbname : str, tables : list):
     if len(sys.argv) > 1:
         dbname = sys.argv[1]
         loadDB(dbname, table_dict[dbname])
+        write_db_version(dbname)
     else:
         for dbname, tables in table_dict.items():
             loadDB(dbname, tables)
+            write_db_version(dbname)
diff --git a/invisible_cities/database/load_db.py b/invisible_cities/database/load_db.py
index a7dec46f45..e8b43df5fe 100644
--- a/invisible_cities/database/load_db.py
+++ b/invisible_cities/database/load_db.py
@@ -163,3 +163,13 @@ def RadioactivityData(db_file, version=None):
 
     return ( activity  .drop(columns="MAX(Version)")
            , efficiency.drop(columns="MAX(Version)"))
+
+def read_db_version(db_file):
+    conn = sqlite3.connect(get_db(db_file))
+    sql = 'select * from db_version'
+    try:
+        data = pd.read_sql_query(sql, conn)
+        return data
+    except pd.io.sql.DatabaseError:
+        # Deal with this...
+        print("Database does not have db_version table")