Whether or not you agree with using SQL to query Active Directory, it is an option, and this article shows how it can be done. There are three ways to query Active Directory (AD) from SQL Server: Using CLR Stored Procedures, using the OpenRowset command, and using the OpenQuery command. This article focuses on the OpenRowset and OpenQuery commands. OpenRowset.
Continue reading the main story. With the cost of some lifesaving cancer drugs exceeding $100,000 a year, more than 100 influential cancer specialists from around the world have taken the unusual step of banding together in hopes of persuading some leading pharmaceutical companies to bring prices down.rices for cancer drugs have been part of the debate over health care costs for several years â and recently led to a public protest from doctors at a major cancer center in New York.
Prescription drug spending is the third most expensive cost in our health care system. And spending seems to grow larger every year. Just last year, the average American got 12 prescriptions a year, as compared with 1992, when Americans got an average of seven prescriptions. In a decade and a half, the use of prescription medication went up 71 percent. This has added about $180 billion to our medical spending. While there are more medicines on the market today than in 1992, researchers estimate that around 20 percent of the $180 billion increase has absolutely nothing to do with the number of medications available, or increases in the cost of that medication.