i have a table employee(id,dept_id,salary,hire_date,job_id) . the following query i have to execute. Show all the employee who were hired on the day of the week on which least no of employee were hired. i have done the query, but am not able to get the least. please check if am correct. select id, WEEKDAY(hire_date)+1 as days,count(WEEKDAY(hire_date)+1) as count from test.employee group by days