Sometimes, that's difficult because a lot of technical manuals aren't written...

yes - its called "read the manual"

might be good to post a link to the tool you are using

@Ed B - in order to truncate a partitioned table , the table and indexes must be aligned (partitioned on the same partition function).- see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/truncate-table-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15

@ScottPletcher - while for a...

how is the packaging being executed? and are those parameters to the SP also parameters to the execution of the package?

and how will the OP create a non clustered PK...

for SQL 2008 R2 SSMS was installed as part of the SQL Server installer - you can get it from there.

to avoid installing it on your pc I would check...

as it would be a unique index I don't believe there would be negative impact on that table (at least not significant).

for the trigger - yes the idea is that...

instead of a Primary Key you can define it as a Unique Index.

one of your issues is how you ensure that GSN_ID remains unique throughout the table. - a update/insert...

see this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/761121/performance-issue-comparing-to-string-format for a small compare rewrite - very specific but it kind of addresses performance.

and then https://hashnode.robinrottier.com/net-6-string-format-performance and https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/string-interpolation-in-c-10-and-net-6/

main issue with "format" is that it has soo much...

another question is why are you converting to NVARCHAR - is your software now going to be used by users that require data that does not fit  on a VARCHAR?...

had you google it you would have found it - its amazing the type of information you get if you search for it instead of waiting for someone to give...

it will execute fine without restarting the instance. and effect is immediate e.g. memory setting will apply immediately (unless the first one is a reduction of memory on which case...

for majority of uses within SQL Server itself you don't need the numerics formatted that way so as mentioned before the formatting should be done on the receiving UI -...

I don't know how you created your text file - but you missed the point. you need to MANUALLY go through each sp, through the object explorer, generate their script...