diff --git a/packages/backend-core/src/sql/sql.ts b/packages/backend-core/src/sql/sql.ts
index 20ef5fab59..69e5391eb2 100644
--- a/packages/backend-core/src/sql/sql.ts
+++ b/packages/backend-core/src/sql/sql.ts
@@ -713,7 +713,11 @@ class InternalBuilder {
             return q
           }
 
-          q = addModifiers(q).where(subQuery => {
+          q = q.where(subQuery => {
+            if (mode === filters?.notContains) {
+              subQuery = subQuery.not
+            }
+
             subQuery.where(subSubQuery => {
               for (const elem of value) {
                 if (mode === filters?.containsAny) {
@@ -733,13 +737,19 @@ class InternalBuilder {
                   `%${lower}%`
                 )
               }
-            })
-          })
 
-          if (mode === filters?.notContains) {
-            // @ts-expect-error knex types are wrong, raw is fine here
-            q.or.whereNull(this.rawQuotedIdentifier(key))
-          }
+              return subSubQuery
+            })
+
+            if (mode === filters?.notContains) {
+              subQuery = subQuery.or.whereNull(
+                // @ts-expect-error knex types are wrong, raw is fine here
+                this.rawQuotedIdentifier(key)
+              )
+            }
+
+            return subQuery
+          })
 
           return q
         })
diff --git a/packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/search.spec.ts b/packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/search.spec.ts
index 9aa482fb6c..b319248ff7 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/search.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/search.spec.ts
@@ -48,13 +48,13 @@ import { generateRowIdField } from "../../../integrations/utils"
 import { cloneDeep } from "lodash/fp"
 
 describe.each([
-  // ["in-memory", undefined],
-  // ["lucene", undefined],
-  // ["sqs", undefined],
-  // [DatabaseName.POSTGRES, getDatasource(DatabaseName.POSTGRES)],
-  // [DatabaseName.MYSQL, getDatasource(DatabaseName.MYSQL)],
-  // [DatabaseName.SQL_SERVER, getDatasource(DatabaseName.SQL_SERVER)],
-  // [DatabaseName.MARIADB, getDatasource(DatabaseName.MARIADB)],
+  ["in-memory", undefined],
+  ["lucene", undefined],
+  ["sqs", undefined],
+  [DatabaseName.POSTGRES, getDatasource(DatabaseName.POSTGRES)],
+  [DatabaseName.MYSQL, getDatasource(DatabaseName.MYSQL)],
+  [DatabaseName.SQL_SERVER, getDatasource(DatabaseName.SQL_SERVER)],
+  [DatabaseName.MARIADB, getDatasource(DatabaseName.MARIADB)],
   [DatabaseName.ORACLE, getDatasource(DatabaseName.ORACLE)],
 ])("search (%s)", (name, dsProvider) => {
   const isSqs = name === "sqs"
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ describe.each([
           ])
         })
 
-        it.only("should not match the session user id in a multi user field", async () => {
+        it("should not match the session user id in a multi user field", async () => {
           await expectQuery({
             notContains: { multi_user: ["{{ [user]._id }}"] },
             notEmpty: { multi_user: true },