It’s no secret that a number of applications, including several of Microsoft’s own, are not going to work properly with Windows Vista when the product ships.

A new one to add to the app-compat alert list: SQL Server 2005 Service Pack (SP1), which Microsoft made available for download in April 2006.

(The older SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7.0 releases won’t be supported for Vista or Longhorn Server, either.)

Microsoft has begun advising customers that they will need SQL Server 2005 SP2 in order to maintain Vista and Longhorn Server compatibility. SQL Server 2005 SP2 is not yet out. In fact, it’s not even available in alpha or beta form yet. According to a blog post on October 30 from Microsoft consultant Benjamin Jones, the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) build of SP2 is due out sometime soon.

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