I was able to remove the replication using the SP sp_removedbreplication and it did drop down the size of the ldf file but I'm still curious to know what might...

Ok, based on the queries suggested in the article, I do not see any replication tasks or CDC going on in my DB. The article says that on a 2005...

CDC is not enabled on this db. Verified using the following query:

SELECT [name], database_id, is_cdc_enabled

FROM sys.databases

I'm dont think there were any snapshot replications that were done on this db but I did run the following query:

SELECT name, recovery_model_desc, log_reuse_wait_desc

FROM sys.databases

and the...

Forgot to mention that the size of MDF is just around 2GB and also this seems to be taking up a lot of space on the data drive.