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		<title>How do I use PHP includes in my Web pages?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PHP Includes allow you to easily reuse specific sections of code and content throughout your site. For example, many sites have a footer section where they display additional navigation links, ads, etc. Without PHP Includes (or other server side programming language), a developer would need to write the same code for this footer into each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mayfieldglobal.com/2008/01/19/how-do-i-use-php-includes-in-my-web-pages/</link>
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		<title>What is the SQL Server 2005 SQL syntax for dropping a column?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is the general syntax for deleting a column from a table:
ALTER TABLE table_name
DROP COLUMN column-name

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		<link>http://blog.mayfieldglobal.com/2008/01/16/what-is-the-sql-server-2005-sql-syntax-for-dropping-a-column/</link>
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		<title>How do I connect my ASP.NET project to the AdventureWorksLT database?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Establishing database connections to SQL Server 2005 is pretty straight forward, provided that you have the necessary components:

SQL Server 2005 Express
Visual Web Developer 2008 Express
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express

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		<link>http://blog.mayfieldglobal.com/2008/01/15/how-do-i-connect-my-aspnet-project-to-the-adventureworkslt-database/</link>
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		<title>I receive the message: &#8220;&#60;username&#62; is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.&#8221;. How do I enable sudo?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sudo command allows users to perform tasks as another user - most commonly, the root user. Using sudo instead of su - has significant advantages. Most notably is that all operations performed with sudo are logged to: /var/log/secure.
To use the sudo command, the user (in this article, the user is ned) must be added [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mayfieldglobal.com/2008/01/13/i-receive-the-message-is-not-in-the-sudoers-file-this-incident-will-be-reported-how-do-i-enable-sudo/</link>
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		<title>How do I convert my MP3 files to the AAC format in iTunes (v7.5)?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Converting MP3 files to AAC format has many benefits but for me the main reason is much smaller files.

Ensure that you have added your MP3 files to the iTunes library.
Select the MP3 files you would like to convert then right-click on the selected files and select Convert Selection to AAC.
After the conversion is complete you may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mayfieldglobal.com/2008/01/11/how-do-i-convert-my-mp3-files-to-the-aac-format-in-itunes-v75/</link>
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		<title>How do I change the name of an existing user account in Linux?</title>
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From the desktop, press Alt+F2 to launch the Run Application window.
Type:gnome-terminalthen press Enter. This will launch a user terminal (similar to Windows command prompt).
At the terminal prompt, type:suthen press Enter. When prompted, type the root (administrator) password then press: Enter. You now have a root terminal session.
At the root terminal, type:usermod -l new old where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mayfieldglobal.com/2008/01/11/how-do-i-change-the-name-of-an-existing-user-account-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>How do I change the access permissions for a file or directory using chmod?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The chmod (change mode) command is used to set file and directory permissions in Linux operating systems. The most common use of chmod is to grant or revoke read (r), write (w) or execute (x) permissions for an owner / user (u), a user group (g) or other / anonymous (o) users. Below is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mayfieldglobal.com/2008/01/10/how-do-i-change-the-access-permissions-for-a-file-or-directory-using-chmod/</link>
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		<title>How do I clear (onclick) and restore (onblur) the default value for a text field?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is one example of how to clear the default text of a text field. In this example, the default text is: &#8220;Search Keywords&#8221;. If the user types text into the field, their entry will remain, allowing them the opportunity to click your &#8220;Search&#8221; button (or do whatever else is planned). However, if the user [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mayfieldglobal.com/2008/01/10/how-do-i-clear-onclick-and-restore-onblur-the-default-value-for-a-text-field/</link>
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		<title>How do I concatenate characters or strings using SQL?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Concatenation (joining 2 or more characters or strings of the same data type) is accomplished using the &#8220;+&#8221; operator. For example, let&#8217;s say that I want to join the strings &#8220;Able&#8221; and &#8220;Baker&#8221;. To do so, I would simply write:
SELECT 'Windows' + 'Vista' AS OSName
Running this query would return:
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		<link>http://blog.mayfieldglobal.com/2008/01/09/how-do-i-concatenate-characters-or-strings-using-sql/</link>
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		<title>How do I select only the date from a datetime data type?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Selecting only the date portion from a datetime data type could be accomplished in a number of ways. One of the most convenient methods is to simply use CONVERT and one of the many style values.
SELECT GETDATE() AS MyDate
returns the default format:
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		<link>http://blog.mayfieldglobal.com/2008/01/09/how-do-i-select-only-the-date-from-a-datetime-data-type/</link>
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