During a web application assessment, you observe that database error messages are suppressed. Submitting ' OR 1=1-- yields the same generic response, but sending '; IF(1=1) WAITFOR DELAY '0:0:5'-- reliably makes the page load five seconds slower. Which SQL injection variant does this indicate?
The injected WAITFOR DELAY statement instructs Microsoft SQL Server to pause execution for a specific period. Because the tester must judge success solely by the presence or absence of the delay-without any returned data or visible error-the technique falls under time-based blind SQL injection. Error-based injection relies on verbose database errors, union-based injection appends a UNION SELECT to return data directly, and boolean-based blind injection infers information from true or false conditions without timing side channels.
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