Using non orm database in django

Django Internals ORM
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Am trying to use a non-orm database in django. To do that, defined it in settings.py like -

DATABASES[‘other_db’]={…}

And use it in a view function like

with connections['other_db'].cursor() as cursor:
query = “SELECT * FROM TABLE“
cursor.execute(query, [])

I can run the app fine and this code works. I have tests that use StaticLiveServerTestCase and the test fails with -

django.test.testcases.DatabaseOperationForbidden: Database threaded connections to ‘other_db’ are not allowed in this test. Add ‘other_db’ to xxx.yyy.databases to ensure proper test isolation and silence this failure.

I can’t add other_db to databases in the test since django attempts to write to the db during initialization. Could you please help with what the right solution is here -

django version - 5.2.7
oracledb version - 3.3.0