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.
Continue reading the main story. This is particularly the case with cancer, where the cost of drugs, and of care over all, has risen precipitously. The typical new cancer drug coming on the market a decade ago cost about $4,500 per month (in 2012 dollars); since 2010 the median price has been around $10,000. Two of the new cancer drugs cost more than $35,000 each per month of treatment.