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The datasource property `url` is no longer supported in schema files (Prisma 7, P1012)

prisma@7@prisma/client@7#prisma#prisma-7#migration#config#database
The datasource property `url` is no longer supported in schema files.
Fix

Before (prisma/schema.prisma):

datasource db {
  provider  = "postgresql"
  url       = env("DATABASE_URL")
  directUrl = env("DIRECT_URL")
}

After:

datasource db {
  provider = "postgresql"
}

prisma.config.ts at the project root (next to package.json):

import 'dotenv/config'
import { defineConfig, env } from 'prisma/config'

export default defineConfig({
  schema: 'prisma/schema.prisma',
  migrations: { path: 'prisma/migrations' },
  datasource: {
    // if you used directUrl for migrations, put the DIRECT connection string here
    url: env('DATABASE_URL'),
  },
})

Then pass a driver adapter to PrismaClient at runtime (see the separate adapter entry). Remove url, directUrl and shadowDatabaseUrl from the schema — any one of them left behind triggers the same error.

If the project is intentionally still on Prisma 6 and only the editor complains: the Prisma VS Code extension 7.x validates with v7 rules; pin the extension to a 6.x version (maintainer answer in prisma/orm#28573).

Symptom

After upgrading to Prisma 7 (or after the Prisma VS Code extension auto-updated to 7.x), prisma generate / prisma migrate / the editor reports a P1012 schema validation error:

error: The datasource property `url` is no longer supported in schema files. Move connection URLs for Migrate to `prisma.config.ts` and pass either `adapter` for a direct database connection or `accelerateUrl` for Accelerate to the `PrismaClient` constructor. See https://pris.ly/d/config-datasource and https://pris.ly/d/prisma7-client-config

The wrong assumption: url = env("DATABASE_URL") belongs in the datasource block of schema.prisma (true through Prisma 6).

Cause

Prisma ORM 7.0.0 (2025-11-19) moved datasource.url and shadowDatabaseUrl out of the schema into prisma.config.ts, removed directUrl, and made prisma.config.ts required for introspection and migration. The prisma key in package.json (schema path, seed) was removed too. The CLI now uses the config file's url for migrations; the runtime client gets its connection through a driver adapter instead.

Verify

npx prisma validate and npx prisma generate succeed; npx prisma migrate status connects using the URL from prisma.config.ts.

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