1. A computer-implemented method comprising: managing at least one application instance of an application, each application instance associated with a plurality of work processes connected with a first database schema; generating a bridge database schema related to the first database schema, the bridge database schema representing a copy of the first database schema, the bridge database schema generated in response to initiation of an update to the application; and in response to determining that the generation of the bridge database schema is complete, individually for each of the plurality of work processes: identifying, at the time the generation of the bridge database schema is complete, whether a particular work process is currently executing actions; in response to determining that the particular work process is currently executing actions at the time the generation of the bridge database schema is complete: determining a commit work action performed by the particular work process during its execution; and in response to determining performance of the commit work action, connecting the particular work process to the bridge database schema; and in response to determining that the particular work process is not executing actions at the time the generation of the bridge database schema is complete, connecting, the particular work process to the bridge database schema.