In previous blog post we talked about maintenance in the application root container. If you remember, I mentioned that the changes you deploy to the application root, will not be applied on the application PDBs. If you install/upgrade/patch the application root container, these changes will not get propagated to the application PDBs.

The application PDBs will synchronize with the root container when the DBA manually issues the sync command. This is a manual operation, that must be explicitly issued by the DBA. Before issuing the sync command, you must connect to the application PDB, where you want the sync to happen. When you synchronize the application PDB, you can synchronize to a specific patch number or version number. You can also synchronize multiple applications at once. The main command to use is:

alter pluggable database application <application name> sync;

Here is an example:

So far we covered the application containers and the operations we can perform. In the next post, I want to walk you through an exercise/demo from start to end, where we create the application container, run some maintenance, and sync the application PDBs. Stay tuned for more!