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.
More than 100,000 Americans spent more than $100,000 on prescription medicine in 2014, Express Scripts found; that's almost triple the number the year before. Driving the costs for those with the highest expenses: primarily medicines for hepatitis C and cancer, the report showed.he average American spent just a fraction of that each year on medication costs: $1,370 in 2014, according to Express Scripts, with an average out of pocket cost of $185, or about 14 percent. Patients in the top 5 percent of spending accounted for 61 percent of the country's medication expenses.