# system.db.runNamedQuery is showing as This function is deprecated and will be hidden in the future In Ignition 8.3

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**Created:** [February 26, 2026, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-db-runnamedquery-is-showing-as-this-function-is-deprecated-and-will-be-hidden-in-the-future-in-ignition-8-3/114204 "2026-02-26T15:06:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-db-runnamedquery-is-showing-as-this-function-is-deprecated-and-will-be-hidden-in-the-future-in-ignition-8-3/114204/6 "2026-02-27T16:51:38Z")

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Just going to highlight this portion of my other post.

> [@8.3 Transformation performance in Vision client](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-transformation-performance-in-vision-client/110975/3):
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> All that said - as ever, just because a function is deprecated does not mean it is going to **break** , now or in the immediate future. With **literally one exception** in the last decade, we do not remove scripting functions after they've been added. Eventually they **may** functionally stop doing anything (e.g. the `system.alert` functions, originally deprecated in 7.6 / **2013** , stopped doing anything in 8.3), but they will not be removed, and in the unlikely event we can't provide equivalent functionality automatically, it will be clearly marked in the upgrade guide.

There's not going to be a rug pull. While I'd recommend moving to the new functions _eventually_, it's because they are **better**. There is absolutely no urgency to doing so.

I'll even state confidently:  
The next major version of Ignition, 2027.2, is not going to do anything to change the behavior of `system.db.runNamedQuery` in a backwards-incompatible way.

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