Hello,

Some background info:

We are working in a 12c multitenant environment on windows server 2012 R2.
Container database contains about 20-25 pluggable databases.

Typically we have to shutdown the container database to perform maintenance on the server, I was wondering if there is any difference between the following methods of doing this shutdown:

Shutting down each PDB individually, then shutting down the container.
Shutting down just the container, without shutting down any PDBs first.
Stopping the Oracle service for the container.

Typically, we shut down each PDB first, then shut down the container and I was wondering if it was worth the extra time to do so.

Thanks!