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.
April 20, 2011 -- The 10 most prescribed drugs in the U.S. aren't the drugs on which we spend the most, according to a report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.The institute is the public face of IMS, a pharmaceutical market intelligence firm.he 10 drugs on which we spent the most were: 1  Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering statin drug -- $7.2 billion. 2  Nexium, an antacid drug -- $6.3 billion. 3  Plavix, a blood thinner -- $6.1 billion. 4  Advair Diskus, an asthma inhaler -- $4.7 billion. 5  Abilify, an antipsychotic drug -- $4.6 billion.