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Michele: Support In my professional experience, it’s usually not a good idea for a company to overhaul its databases. ███ ███████ ██████ ██████ ███ ████████ ███████████ █████ ███ ████ ███ █████ ███████ ████ ██████ ███████████ █ ████████ ████████ █████ █████ ██████ ███████████
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Speaker 1 Summary
Michele concludes that people should think twice before proceeding with a database overhaul. This is because the benefits of an overhaul rarely outweigh the problems of an overhaul.
Speaker 2 Summary
Alvaro asserts that problems of an overhaul are always caused by failing to recode the database properly. Thus, he concludes that a company considering an overhaul should do the overhaul correctly.
Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. A point of disagreement is difficult to predict up front. They seem to disagree over how to approach a database overhaul. Michele recommends strongly considering whether an overhaul is the right decision. Alvaro recommends doing an overhaul correctly, but doesn’t express as much caution about doing the overhaul as Michele does.
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why companies should ████████ ███████████ █████ █████████
Neither speaker has an opinion. They don’t get into any particular reasons that a company should consider overhauling their databases.
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whether the problems ███████████ ██████ █ ████████ ████████ ████ ████████ ███ ███████
Alvaro doesn’t have an opinion. He doesn’t discuss the benefits of a database overhaul and whether they ever outweigh the problems.
c
which kinds of ████████ █████████ ████ ████ ████████ ████ ███ █████████ ██ ███ ███████
Neither speaker has an opinion. They don’t discuss different kinds of database overhauls or which kinds have more problems than benefits.
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what a company ██████ ██ ████ ███████████ █ ████████ ████████
This is a point of disagreement. Michele thinks companies should think twice before proceeding. In other words, they should strongly consider not doing the overhaul. Alvaro recommends something different. To him, the best advice for companies is to do the overhaul correctly.
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when professional experience ██ ████████ ██ █████████ ██████ █ ████████
Neither speaker has an opinion. They don’t discuss the need for professional experience to recode a database.