>Given an optimistic table buffered cursor against an updateable view:
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>Suppose the cursor has already been queried , and changes made by the user.
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>There is an existing record in the base table, that was not included in the query and thus is not in the cursor against the view.
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>Is there a way to add this existing record to the cursor without requerying the view?
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>My guess is no -- but there are people on this thread who do amazing things.

Not without doing it manually. You can always open the base table in another work area, and SCATTER, GATHER into the view.