Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate ~ Anthony Nocentino

Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate

We’ll build a DBA agent from the ground up using Model Context Protocol (MCP). You’ll see how MCP connects a language model to your existing tooling. We’ll give that agent real, actionable skills across availability management, backup and recovery, security and auditing, and observability. We’ll work through what skill files look like in practice and how to structure them, so the agent actually knows what it’s doing.

The focus throughout is on control and trust. Fast-moving AI tools are only useful if your operations and security teams believe in them. You’ll leave with a practical architecture you can apply to your own SQL Server estate the next day.

You’ll learn how to:

Explain what AI agents and MCP are and how they apply to database operations
Build DBA agent skills for availability, recovery, security/auditing, and observability
Design trust and control guardrails that keep humans in the decision loop