A deployment infrastructure (DI) imports at least one object description artifact and at least one content data file associated with a database object to a design-time container. The DI deploys the database object in a runtime container based on the at least one object description artifact and the at least one content data file. The DI exports the at least one object description artifact in the design-time container and at least one updated content data file based on an updated database object in the runtime container, wherein the updated database object includes updated content of the database object generated at runtime of a database application.