How to perform better document version control on Excel files and SQL schema files

Question

I am in charge of several Excel files and SQL schema files. How should I perform better document version control on these files?

I need to know the part modified (di

Answer 1

As mentioned in another answer's comment, .xlsx files are just XML.

To get to the XML directory (which is git-able), you have to "unzip" the .xlsx file to a directory. A quick way see this on Windows is to rename the file .xlsx to .zip, and you'll see the inner contents. I'd store this along with the binary so that when you checkout, you do not have to do other steps in order to open the document in Excel.