diff --git a/apps/server/src/persistence/Layers/Sqlite.ts b/apps/server/src/persistence/Layers/Sqlite.ts
index b12d4a9b73c5dda17f76ea7b71c4503915a1ad0e..cf7e40efa5e96eb31db7d4d704ad42689505a58c 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/persistence/Layers/Sqlite.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/persistence/Layers/Sqlite.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import { runMigrations } from "../Migrations.ts";
 
 type RuntimeSqliteLayerConfig = {
   readonly filename: string;
-  readonly disableWAL?: boolean | undefined;
 };
 
 type Loader = {
@@ -46,8 +45,5 @@ export const makeSqlitePersistenceLive = (dbPath: string) =>
 
 export const SqlitePersistenceMemory = Layer.provideMerge(
   setup,
-  makeRuntimeSqliteLayer({
-    filename: ":memory:",
-    disableWAL: true,
-  }),
+  makeRuntimeSqliteLayer({ filename: ":memory:" }),
 );
diff --git a/apps/server/src/persistence/NodeSqliteClient.ts b/apps/server/src/persistence/NodeSqliteClient.ts
index f1c88e57a9d722b18e7a7c2053dab9da1507647e..cdfcee4e986329b31c2aa8e06b4b42e94f8b2da6 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/persistence/NodeSqliteClient.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/persistence/NodeSqliteClient.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ export interface SqliteClientConfig {
   readonly allowExtension?: boolean | undefined;
   readonly prepareCacheSize?: number | undefined;
   readonly prepareCacheTTL?: Duration.Input | undefined;
-  readonly disableWAL?: boolean | undefined;
   readonly spanAttributes?: Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
   readonly transformResultNames?: ((str: string) => string) | undefined;
   readonly transformQueryNames?: ((str: string) => string) | undefined;
@@ -64,10 +63,6 @@ const makeWithDatabase = (
         Effect.sync(() => db.close()),
       );
 
-      if (options.disableWAL !== true) {
-        db.exec("PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL");
-      }
-
       const statementReaderCache = new WeakMap<StatementSync, boolean>();
       const hasRows = (statement: StatementSync): boolean => {
         const cached = statementReaderCache.get(statement);
@@ -203,7 +198,6 @@ const makeMemory = (
       ...config,
       filename: ":memory:",
       readonly: false,
-      disableWAL: config.disableWAL ?? true,
     },
     () => {
       const database = new DatabaseSync(":memory:", {