MySQL Date and Time Exercises: Get the distinct Mondays from hire_date in employees tables

MySQL Date Time: Exercise-3 with Solution

Write a query to get the distinct Mondays from hire_date in employees tables.

Sample table: employees

Code:

SELECT DISTINCT(STR_TO_DATE
     (CONCAT(YEARWEEK(hire_date),'1'),'%x%v%w')) 
          FROM employees;

Pictorial Presentation of the above query:

Sample Output:

(STR_TO_DATE
 (CONCAT(YEARWEEK(hire_date),'1'),'%x%v%w'))
1987-06-08T04:00:00.000Z
1987-06-15T04:00:00.000Z
1987-06-22T04:00:00.000Z
1987-06-29T04:00:00.000Z
1987-07-06T04:00:00.000Z
1987-07-13T04:00:00.000Z
1987-07-20T04:00:00.000Z
1987-07-27T04:00:00.000Z
1987-08-03T04:00:00.000Z
1987-08-10T04:00:00.000Z
1987-08-17T04:00:00.000Z
1987-08-24T04:00:00.000Z
1987-08-31T04:00:00.000Z
1987-09-07T04:00:00.000Z
1987-09-14T04:00:00.000Z
1987-09-21T04:00:00.000Z

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