SSIS vs. SQL: Source Code Management — Why SP Diffs Are Readable and `.dtsx` Diffs Are Not
Diff two versions of an SSIS package — even a trivial rename produces eight “changed regions” in the XML, and the diff doesn’t even locate the actual edit correctly. The same modification in a stored procedure shows three lines of diff, reviewable in 30 seconds. Source code management is a maintainability decision — not a … Read more