>>>Interesting. Should I put it in every index I created on this cursor? This cursor is always in some order by one of the fields...
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>>Of course.
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>The question now is: should I go ahead and try it or live the working solution in place (the cursor has less than 100 records usually) and concentrate on the other problems? < g >

Nadya, now you known the solution,
then you can put it into the Jobs Queue;
set the priority value, your prerogative is one.

Sure, to implement FOR NOT DELETED() on table's indexes
demands one total analysis.