>>>>>NOFILTER is a must in your situation because you're selecting all the columns and using a where condition. It may result in the filtered result.
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>>>>Sorry, but you're wrong.
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>>>What do you mean? You mean it's not possible the above query will result in the filtered set?
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>>The query may give a filtered record set, but so what? The "copy to" command will respect the automatically created filter.
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>That I know. But it still better to avoid filtered set.

Depending on what you need the cursor for. In this particular case a filtered record set will work just fine.