Tried that already... no such luck... tonight I'll try rebooting the publisher server - poor thing's been up for a couple of months 😉

@noeld: thanks for your suggestions;

- I had already stopped/started the agent - multiple times 😉

- The appropriate profile is checked for the agent in use

- Using a...

Additionally, I have specified following definition of step 2 "Run agent." in the Log Reader Agent:

[font="Courier New"]-Publisher [SRVDB01\SQL2005] -PublisherDB ["DATABASE"] -Distributor [SRVDB01\SQL2005] -DistributorSecurityMode 1 -ReadBatchSize 50 -Continuous[/font]

... which doesn't seem...

Im quite confused meanwhile: please consider following statement retrieving all parameters from agent profiles which contain the "ReadBatchSize" parameter:

[font="Courier New"]SELECT pr.profile_name, pr.agent_type, pr.type, pa.*

FROM MSagent_profiles pr

JOIN MSagent_parameters pa ON...

Thanks for your prompt answer! I am currently trying (from default values QueryTimeout=1800; ReadBatchSize=500) QueryTimeout=65534 (max. allowed); ReadBatchSize=50... no avail... in the log file viewer I see the following entry:...