>>>Thank you. I now created a permanent stored procedure (exactly as the temp one) but still the cursor is not updated. I even set the value to be OUTPUT in the stored procedure to some number but the Identity field still shows 0 after update. Could it be that the reason is the Identity field is the same as PK field?
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>>Do you have another unique key in the table (as in this sample it's timestamp field)?
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>No.

May be that's why your code is not working the same way as Aleksey.