Question

Is there any tricky way to format seconds like hours:minutes:seconds. For example,

3660

seconds will be displayed as

01h 01m 00s

or

01:01:00

I am aware of the standard way of doing this:

1. Divide all seconds on 3600 to get the hours
2. Divide the rest seconds on 60 to get the minutes
3. The rest are the seconds

I met the following issues:

1. I am not able to create separate function that do this.

2. My code is in view using several CTEs. So, variables can be declare
   using the CTEs only.

3. I am not able to use the standard solution because I will have
   results bigger then one day – How to convert Seconds to HH:MM:SS using T-SQL

Answer 1

SELECT Seconds, 
    RIGHT('00'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),Seconds/3600),2)  
    +':' 
    + RIGHT('00'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(2),(Seconds%3600)/60),2) 
    +':' 
    + RIGHT('00'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(2),Seconds%60),2) AS [HH:MM:SS] 
FROM table1

Result:

Seconds	HH:MM:SS
3660	01:01:00
3800	01:03:20
4200	01:10:00
600	00:10:00
60	00:01:00
86400	24:00:00
86800	24:06:40

See this SQLFiddle

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Update

The above query works fine if the total number of hours are less than 100 i.e. (99:59:59). If you need more than that you can use the following query:

SELECT 
    Seconds,
    CASE Seconds/3600 
    WHEN 0 THEN RIGHT('00'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),Seconds/3600),2) 
    ELSE CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),Seconds/3600) END
    +':' 
    + RIGHT('00'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(2),(Seconds%3600)/60),2) 
    +':' 
    + RIGHT('00'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(2),Seconds%60),2) AS [HH:MM:SS]
FROM table1

Result:

Seconds	HH:MM:SS
3660	1:01:00
3800	1:03:20
4200	1:10:00
600	00:10:00
60	00:01:00
9999930	2777:45:30
359999	99:59:59
360000	100:00:00
86800	24:06:40

See this SQLFiddle