DateDiff to output hours and minutes

Question

my code gives TOTAL HOURS in hours, but i am trying to output something like

TotalHours 
  8:36

where 8 represents hour part and 36 repres

Answer 1

this would hep you

 DECLARE @DATE1 datetime = '2014-01-22 9:07:58.923'
 DECLARE @DATE2 datetime = '2014-01-22 10:20:58.923'
 SELECT DATEDIFF(HOUR, @DATE1,@DATE2) ,
        DATEDIFF(MINUTE, @DATE1,@DATE2) - (DATEDIFF(HOUR,@DATE1,@DATE2)*60)

 SELECT CAST(DATEDIFF(HOUR, @DATE1,@DATE2) AS nvarchar(200)) +
        ':'+ CAST(DATEDIFF(MINUTE, @DATE1,@DATE2)  -
                 (DATEDIFF(HOUR,@DATE1,@DATE2)*60) AS nvarchar(200))
As TotalHours