Paola Lorusso

Paola Lorusso is the Manager of EMEA Open Source Databases Specialist Team, based in Milan, Italy. She works with companies of all sizes to support their innovation in the database domain. The team helps customers to adopt the best migration strategy and design database architectures on AWS with open-source managed solutions.

Sessions for 2026

Beyond Traditional DBA Practices - Transforming T-SQL Script Expertise into AI Agents

If you're managing SQL Server instances, you know the drill—you've built up a collection of diagnostic scripts over the years including queries to check for blocking sessions, identify slow-running procedures, monitor disk space, and analyze index usage that represent your expertise developed after years of troubleshooting database issues at 2 AM. Here's what's interesting: those scripts can now become the foundation for AI agents that work around the clock, transforming your T-SQL knowledge into agentic AI tool framework through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), agentic frameworks, and secure hosting environments. In this session, you will learn how to convert your proven diagnostic queries into tools that Large Language Models can contextually select and execute based on real-time database conditions. You will discover how to build AI agents that understand context, make informed decisions, and execute complex operations autonomously while exploring critical guardrails that ensure responsible operation in production environments. The session covers practical implementation patterns and real-world examples of how your T-SQL expertise can work 24/7 through AI automation while maintaining enterprise reliability standards