William Meitzen
Application Database Administrator
Georgetown, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Meitzen is an Application Database Administrator with a decade of hands-on experience optimizing, automating, and supporting large-scale SQL Server environments across government, healthcare, education, oil & gas, and finance. He has administered hundreds of instances, implemented AlwaysOn Availability Groups and replication for high availability, and cut setup times by 80% through automation. Comfortable across Windows and Linux, on-prem, EC2, and RDS, he also bridges platform gaps—authoring a DB2-to-SQL/Postgres conversion tool and supporting DB2 and Aurora alongside SQL Server. Known for dramatic query and process improvements (including taking multi-minute queries down to seconds and automating week-long tasks), he blends deep execution-plan tuning with scripting in PowerShell, Python, Groovy and T-SQL. Currently based in Georgetown, Texas, he brings a pragmatic, results-first approach to keeping critical systems resilient and performant.
10 years of coding experience
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of West FloridaAssociate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) Computer Technology, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) Computer Technology at Brazosport CollegeCertificate of Completion Microcomputer Technology, Certificate of Completion Microcomputer Technology at Microcomputer Technology InstituteBiblical Studies, Biblical Studies at Moody Bible Institute
Stackoverflow
63reputation
9kreached
1answer
6questions
Github Skills (73)
sql-client10
postgresql10
db210
erd10
nosql10
dbeaver10
sql10
database10
sqlite10
database-access10
mysql10
java10
firebird10
oracle10
bootstrap9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wmeitzen/sql-server
Dec 2019 - Sep 2024
Non-trivial or oft-used queries for SQL Server.
Contributions:1 PR, 90 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
sqlserversql-serveroftsqlsqlite
wmeitzen/postgresql-explain-graph
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:114 commits, 112 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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