Preparing for Drupal 12: Auditing Database API Usage
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Drupal 12 is on the horizon, and with it comes the final removal of a long-standing legacy layer: the procedural Database API wrappers.
If your codebase still relies on db_query(), db_select(), or db_insert(), you are looking at a hard break when D12 lands. These functions have been deprecated since Drupal 8, but they've stuck around for backward compatibility. That grace period is ending.