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

Since any DateTime can be cast to a float, and the decimal part of the number represent the time itself:

DECLARE @date DATETIME = GETDATE()

SELECT CAST(CAST(@date AS FLOAT) - FLOOR(CAST(@date AS FLOAT)) AS DATETIME

This will result a datetime like '1900-01-01 hour of the day' you can cast it as time, timestamp or even use convert to get the formatted time.

I guess this works in any version of SQL since cast a datetime to float is compatible since version 2005.

Hope it helps.