system.db.runScalarPrepQuery No longer works in perspective

Right - this is more of a sticking point for 8.0 than it's previously been, but doing an upgrade or restoring a .gwbk keeps your old JDBC drivers. The reasoning behind this is, it would be worse to install the new version (or restore a backup from a running system) and suddenly your databases no longer work.

You will have to manually update the JDBC driver in order to obtain the new version, and then your .gwbks from that point on will have that new version.

and this strategy made a lot more sense before Java version changes were introduced as another reason your JDBC driver might not work.

At this point I still think it's the right move, but it's less obvious.

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I thought that restoring might have replaced the jbdc as well - I should have noted the jdbc before the restore. Anyways, manually adding a newer version did do the trick. Thanks everyone for the help!

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