1. A computer-implemented method comprising: managing at least one application instance of an application, each application instance associated with a plurality of executing 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, for each of the plurality of work processes: determining a commit work action performed by the particular work process; and in response to determining performance of the commit work action, connecting the particular work process to the bridge database schema.