Good article. It's good to see sp_spaceused in an article. It provides a lot of great information for one little proc.

I still can't believe that you can get a count from SQL Server faster in FoxPro than you can in the native product. It is dumb that we have to worry about slow record counts and use JET to see how many rows there are in order to do it fast. I think the development team should have a hash like JET uses that is integral to SQL Server.