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Your AI Doesn't Need to Dig Around in Production Databases. It Needs Better Briefings.

Your AI Doesn't Need to Dig Around in Production Databases. It Needs Better Briefings.

By Kendra Little on June 29, 2026

Category: sql-server , postgres
Tags: mcp , ai

I increasingly hear or read the advice to solve problems by querying MCP servers on production databases.

Meanwhile, I’m reading output from an AI agent that tried to use an MCP server of some sort. And the output is full of things that are obviously wrong/false/dangerous.

It’s expensive and dangerous to trust an AI Agent to query production freely, even with read-only access. You have MUCH safer options which will give you better results, both for human employees and AI Agents.

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Bad News, DBAs, We Are All Developers Now

Bad News, DBAs, We Are All Developers Now

I sometimes joke that I’m a Junior Developer and a Principal Database Administrator, which is why I have a Staff level title. I’m not sure it’s a joke anymore, though.

I’m still an OLTP database specialist, but increasingly I’m also a programmer who commits code in multiple languages. I own pull requests that I ship in a release process, following all the same rules and patterns as other developers. My PRs feature unit tests, integration tests, feature flags, the whole shebang.

Tech roles, including DBA roles, are changing rapidly due to AI coding advances. Don’t use AI to write production SQL code without incredibly heavy review and revisions, but do use it to accelerate shipping your improvements to SQL code.

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