{"id":94246,"date":"2022-06-22T00:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T00:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/?p=94246"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:03:33","slug":"mighty-tester-analysis-paralysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/opinion\/editorials\/mighty-tester-analysis-paralysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Tester: Analysis Paralysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-94247 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Analysis-Paralysis-Mighty-Tester-by-Devyani-Borade.jpg\" alt=\"Image showing comic strip. Tester is at the computer and sees a message. &quot;What do you mean? I don't understand the question. That makes zero sense... Before we can answer that, we must first define...BLAH...BLAH... Actually, do you know the origin of the word was...BLAH...BLAH...BLAH...BLAH. Gotta go. Next meeting, bye.&quot; She then says to herself All I asked was &quot;Did you enjoy your sunny weekend?&quot; \" width=\"984\" height=\"1408\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"spaced-bottom padded--tight scheme--lightest-grey\">\n<h4>Commentary Competition<\/h4>\n<p>Enjoyed the topic? Have a relevant anecdote? Disagree with the author? Leave your two cents on this post in the comments below, and our favourite response will win a $50 Amazon gift card. The competition closes two weeks from the date of publication, and the winner will be announced in the next Simple Talk newsletter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47125,53],"tags":[5134],"coauthors":[48716],"class_list":["post-94246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials","category-featured","tag-sql-prompt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94248,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94246\/revisions\/94248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94246"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=94246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}