diff --git a/qqq-backend-core/pom.xml b/qqq-backend-core/pom.xml
index 60561f25..c9a3c8f5 100644
--- a/qqq-backend-core/pom.xml
+++ b/qqq-backend-core/pom.xml
@@ -192,6 +192,13 @@
          <version>2.3.2</version>
       </dependency>
 
+      <!-- bring in a newer version of this lib, which quartz transitively loads through c3p0 -->
+      <dependency>
+         <groupId>com.mchange</groupId>
+         <artifactId>mchange-commons-java</artifactId>
+         <version>0.3.0</version>
+      </dependency>
+
       <!-- Many of the deps we bring in use slf4j.  This dep maps slf4j to our logger, log4j -->
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
diff --git a/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/pom.xml b/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/pom.xml
index a7ba512e..3e9be513 100644
--- a/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/pom.xml
+++ b/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/pom.xml
@@ -42,13 +42,6 @@
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-backend-core</artifactId>
          <version>${revision}</version>
-         <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-               <!-- for c3p0 connection pooling - transitively brought in by quartz -->
-               <groupId>com.mchange</groupId>
-               <artifactId>mchange-commons-java</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-         </exclusions>
       </dependency>
 
       <!-- 3rd party deps specifically for this module -->