diff --git a/public/test.db b/public/test.db
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f9c72f
Binary files /dev/null and b/public/test.db differ
diff --git a/src/App.js b/src/App.js
index eb52283..c58ba7e 100644
--- a/src/App.js
+++ b/src/App.js
@@ -14,9 +14,17 @@ export default class App extends React.Component {
     // sql.js needs to fetch its wasm file, so we cannot immediately instantiate the database
     // without any configuration, initSqlJs will fetch the wasm files directly from the same path as the js
     // see ../config-overrides.js
-    initSqlJs()
-      .then(SQL => this.setState({ db: new SQL.Database() }))
-      .catch(err => this.setState({ err }));
+
+    const me = this;
+    Promise.all([initSqlJs(), fetch('./test.db')]).then(async res => {
+      const SQLite = res[0], dbStorage = res[1];
+      const db = new SQLite.Database(new Uint8Array(await dbStorage.arrayBuffer()));
+
+      me.setState({db: db});
+    }).catch(err => {
+      me.setState({err});
+    });
+
   }
 
   exec(sql) {
@@ -70,7 +78,8 @@ export default class App extends React.Component {
         <textarea
           onChange={e => this.exec(e.target.value)}
           placeholder="Enter some SQL. No inpiration ? Try “select sqlite_version()”"
-        ></textarea>
+          defaultValue="SELECT * FROM db_articles"
+        />
 
         <pre className="error">{(err || "").toString()}</pre>