Switching between pluggable database – alter session set container

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Alter session set container - <pdb_name> can be used to switch between pluggable databases of multitenant Oracle setup.
With Oracle multitenant being Oracles preferred implementation method with non-cdb architecture is deprecated in Oracle 12c - (Refer screen below , https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/UPGRD/deprecated.htm#BABDBCJI), alter session set container does become a common command to use.

Alter session set container example

 oracle@pcitdb:~$ sqlplus sys as sysdba  
 SQL*Plus: Release 12.2.0.1.0 Production on Wed Jul 22 16:57:54 2020  
 Copyright (c) 1982, 2016, Oracle. All rights reserved.  
 Enter password:  
 Connected to:  
 Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production  
 SQL> set lines 1000  
 SQL> show pdbs;  
   CON_ID CON_NAME            OPEN MODE RESTRICTED  
 ---------- ------------------------------ ---------- ----------  
      2 PDB$SEED            READ ONLY NO  
      3 PRMUATPDB           READ WRITE NO  
      4 PRMGLD31            MOUNTED  
      5 PRMDEVPDB           MOUNTED  
      7 PRMINTGR            READ WRITE NO  
 SQL> alter session set container=PRMINTGR;  
 Session altered.  
 SQL> show pdbs;  
   CON_ID CON_NAME            OPEN MODE RESTRICTED  
 ---------- ------------------------------ ---------- ----------  
      7 PRMINTGR            READ WRITE NO  
 SQL> show user;  
 USER is "SYS"  
 SQL>
Also if you are too lazy to type the whole command every time you switch between pdbs, best option is to have sql files created with alter sessions set container command in home directory so script can be executed to switch to PDB.
 oracle@pcitdb:~$ cat PRMINTGR.sql  
 alter session set container=PRMINTGR;  
 oracle@pcitdb:~$ sqlplus sys as sysdba  
 SQL*Plus: Release 12.2.0.1.0 Production on Wed Jul 22 23:36:17 2020  
 Copyright (c) 1982, 2016, Oracle. All rights reserved.  
 Enter password:  
 Connected to:  
 Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production  
 SQL> @PRMINTGR  
 Session altered.  
 SQL> show pdbs;  
   CON_ID CON_NAME            OPEN MODE RESTRICTED  
 ---------- ------------------------------ ---------- ----------  
      7 PRMINTGR            READ WRITE NO  
 SQL>

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