Please help me get time by seconds duration

Question

Hello dear friends.
I have duration of the procces in seconds in table column, but I need show this duration in regular format like this: 00:00:00.
Examples:
13 (00:00:13)
65(00:01:05)
I know that I can write function, but may be somewere this function exist, or anybody have written this function.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Assuming the format you showed is how it is stored (the HR:MI:SS) in your table as a VARCHAR2 and not DATE, then this code would appear to do what you asked, except it just needs to be put within a function wrapper:
SQL> create table x (secs varchar2(8));
Table created.
SQL> insert into x values ('02:20:05');
1 row created.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
select to_number(substr(secs,1,2)) * 60*60 +
       to_number(substr(secs,4,2)) * 60    +
       to_number(substr(secs,7,2))         ||
       '(' || secs || ')' SECONDS
from x;SECONDS
8405(02:20:05)
Bob
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