DBAs often follow a practice of using the Transactional Log Shipping Monitor in SSMS to ensure that the Log Shipping is running without any issues. However, it is not always possible to do 24/7 monitoring using the Log Shipping monitor. The alert messages generated by third party monitoring systems can be overkill and generate messages [...]

Scenario:  A couple of days back I was setting up a DR plan for one of our most mission critical DB servers which was hosting around 10 databases having size of 10, 23, 5, 7.4, 1.8, 6.2, 7.9, 5.53, 8.7 and 125 GB respectively. I decided to implement Log Shipping as a part of the [...]