The night one student's record taught me to stop looking at the record

A Tuesday in May 2026, around 10 p.m. Catherine pings me from Maisons-Laffitte: « ça bug sur Loubna, c'est vite corrigé. » Sentry opens. Cannot read properties of undefined on the function that renders a weekly attendance sheet. The child has no last name on file. My hand is already typing the one-line UPDATE that would write Sebti into the nom column and close the ticket in eight seconds.

I don't type the UPDATE. I type a wider query, because another record taught me a month earlier that the record is never the problem.

SELECT statut, COUNT(*) FROM contacts

WHERE statut = 'inscrit'