We are a small division of a larger company and we are required to keep a server at the corporate office as a disaster recovery server. I want to use SQL's (2005) transaction log shipping feature to keep the offsite server up-to-date.
The problem is that Mama Corprorate wants proof that the database is functional. For example, a screenshot of the remote session showing a query of the orders table showing the most recent group of orders (with the order date). Is there a way to satisfy this requirement without breaking the log shipping? I suggested that I give them a screen of the history for the LS Restore job, but they didn't like that idea since "that really isn't telling you that its working" according to them.
Thanks!