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    I am having a problem with an SQL query. This is my original table definition in IBM DB2:
    Code:
    CREATE TABLE Book
    (
    	BookID  INTEGER NOT NULL,
    	Title  VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
    	Price  DECIMAL(10,2) NOT NULL,
    	CategoryID	INTEGER,
    	PublisherID	INTEGER,
            CONSTRAINT PrimaryKey PRIMARY KEY
            (
              BookID
            )
    );
    That works fine, but now I want to write a query which will make a discount on all the books which have a certain CategoryID.
    For example, implement a discount of 10% on all books in categoryID 1:

    Code:
    CREATE VIEW DiscountView AS SELECT BookID, Title, Price, CategoryID, PubliserID, Price/10 AS Discount FROM Book WHERE Book.CategoryID = 1;
    SELECT * FROM DiscountView WHERE Book.CategoryID = 1;
    UPDATE Book SET Price = Price - Discount WHERE Book.CategoryID = 1;
    The Update statement is where it all goes wrong - I get an error message saying:
    DB21034E The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was not a
    valid Command Line Processor command. During SQL processing it returned:
    SQL0206N "DISCOUNT" is not valid in the context where it is used.
    SQLSTATE=42703


    Does anyone know how I can get it to work? It has to take a percentage value, because later I will write a Java Database Connectivity program whereby a user will specify a percentage value, to discount all the books in a specific category.

    Thanks for any help.

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    google.

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    or a linux help forum (found on google)

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    OK, I've found my way to http://www.linuxquestions.org/ forum and posted my problem on there.
    I hope someone there will know, as this has to be in tomorrow. Although it doesn't matter too much - this is only one small part of the task, and I've done nearly everything else.

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    have you declared discount somewhere and have you called it in the from statement.


    im doing sql at the minute so im still learning.

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