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>>Why can't you use a query with ORDER BY?
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>I can. But the query with ORDER BY on the initial cursor will be of a different name. And this will lead to making a bunch of changes in the code. So I was trying to stay with the same cursor name to avoid making other changes.
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>I don't know if you read what Naomi said, but she thinks that the initial ORDER BY should work.
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>I will have to run some tests.
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>Thank you for your help.

The initial order by persists when you do SET ORDER TO on the cursor. Test it, it's easy <g>