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Magento Error SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user ‘username’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

I have falled foul of this error a couple of times now and it is tricky to find the correct information online to fix the problem. It seems there are two obvious situations where this error occurs and depending on your version of Magento, or exactly what you did then there are three simple things to check to fix it and get your Magento site back up and running.

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5 steps to get you started with rails migrations

Rails migrations are brilliant. I say this because until now I had heard of them, seen articles about them and like poor misguided VB programmers I had completely ignored them. They make loads of potentially tricky database migration, rollback and versioning issues a doddle but mainly (from my point of view) they mean I can [...]