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Performance tuning a cascading delete with many foreign keys

I have a delete query that is taking a long time. Looking at the execution plan, I see that most of the estimated cost in the delete query is in a section of the data model that had a lot of data ...
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How do automaticly delete rows from other tables

I have a MySql DB. I have a table - recipes. Also have 2 tables -ingredients and instructions. both have for each entry - a foreign key to the related recipe. I want that when I delete an entry from ...
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MySQL - automatically update all references to specific table to use on delete cascade?

I have a specific table for one of my software packages on a MySQL 5.1 box which I need to drop a few hundred entries. These are user names with names in uppercase, the application is case specific ...