Project Server (SharePoint) - Database Collation question.

Hi,
I have been looking at the performance of our SharePoint database server and one of its uses is Project Server.
Our databases are set as follows
Project Server Databases (Latin1_General_CI_AS)
SharePoint Server Content Databases (Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS)
TempDB (Latin1_General_CI_AS)
It seems that the Project Server databases should be (SQL_Latin1General_CP1_CI_AS):
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff800813(v=office.14).aspx
e.g.
Database
Collation
Project Server Archive
SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
Project Server Draft
SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
Project Server Published
SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
Project Server Reporting
SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
SharePoint Server Content
Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS
I may be worrying unnecessarily but my understanding was that the tempdb should be the same collation as the user databases (where possible). With the SharePoint content and the Project Server databases on the same instance this is not possible.
Should I...
1. Not worry about it (the performance impact is negligable).
2. Create seperate instances so that the TempDB can match the user databases (I am worried that the overhead of an extra instance will be more than the overhead of different collations).
3. Implement Contained/Partially contained databases (new possible option)
4. Something else?
Also how bad is it that the Project server databases are Latin1_General_CI_AS rather than SQL_Latin1General_CP1_CI_AS.
Thanks in advance
Shaun

Hi Prasanna,
thank you for taking the time to respond.
From the link - I read this as Microsoft insisting that you use Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS for the SharePoint content databases and recommending it for the system databases including TempDB?
Our TempDB is not the same collation as the SharePoint content databases but the same as the Project Server databases. Which brings me back to my original questions.
From the Technet article:
The following TechNet Article talks about the SQL Server collation for the SharePoint databases
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288970.aspx#section1
“The SQL Server collation must be configured for case-insensitive. The SQL Server database collation must be configured for case-insensitive, accent-sensitive, Kana-sensitive, and width-sensitive. This is to
ensure file name uniqueness consistent with the Windows operating system.”
However, we do not support changing the default collation (Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS) for SharePoint databases to any other collations (CI, AS, KS, WS).
We support any CI collation for the SQL instance (for master, tempdb databases). However we
recommend using Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS as the instance default collation (master, tempdb databases).

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all of them at your project’s plan.
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Share Point determines what task to sync from Project’s plan to sharepoint list. To do that sharepoint needs to know was that task changed or not, based on the following fileds (check SQL stored procedure “[MSP_READ_TASKS_FOR_SYNCRONIZATION]”):
TASK_UID    TASK_NAME    TASK_START_DATE    TASK_FINISH_DATE    TASK_PCT_COMP    TASK_PARENT_UID    TASK_OUTLINE_NUM
WSS_LISTITEM_UID   TASK_ID    TASK_IS_ACTIVE
We noticed that at any case synchronization performs for all tasks, EXCEPT the ROOT one. Then we looked at the comparison of TASK_PARENT_UID field. So sharepoint compares TASK_PARENT_UID with ParentID (this is internal name for lookup
field “Tasks” at the Sharepoint, and it stores their values at the format "ID;#Title").
And comparison performs like following:
SharePoint looks for Task at the Tasks’s list corresponded to Project’s plan with ID represented at the TASK_PARENT_UID field. Then it takes SharePoint ListItem ID (“int” type) and store it to the “num” parameter;
num = this.GetCachedListItemByUniqueId(listItem.ParentList, nullable.Value).ID;
2.Then it compares “num” with task’s “ParentID” at SharePOint as follow with operator “!=”:
((SPItem) listItem)["ParentID"] != (System.ValueType) num
3. If comparison was success (true) – then it tell us that values (at the Project’s plan for tasks) was changed, then it need to be synchronized. Corresponded Method setup “true” flag, and then returns it.
The “bug” is that this expression at the Step 2 will always return “true”, because in fact it compares “string” (see above – that this is lookup field at SharePoint side)
with “number”. For example if the parant task ID is “55”, then we get:
"55;#Task 1" != 55
And by the rules of .Net the “string” will never equal “number”
Furthermore this is approved by the SharePoint logs:
In that case we always get the note “Setting ParentID to” at the logs (we see it if turns on Verbose for “Project Server” -> “Sharepoint Integration” category).
So at any case of publishing project’s plan we always get that note at the logs for tasks that have Parent task, and we have Parent for all of them EXCEPT the ROOT one, exact logs represented further:
10/15/2014 02:37:32.26    Microsoft.Office.Project.Server (0x07D8)    0x06E8    Project Server    Sharepoint Integration    ado0d
Verbose    Setting ParentID to 1    bf2fc29c-7727-b00d-fa4a-34f22ea9ec1d 10/15/2014 02:37:32.62    Microsoft.Office.Project.Server (0x07D8)    0x06E8
Project Server    Sharepoint Integration    ado0d    Verbose
Setting ParentID to 1    bf2fc29c-7727-b00d-fa4a-34f22ea9ec1d 10/15/2014 02:37:32.63    Microsoft.Office.Project.Server (0x07D8)    0x06E8    Project Server
Sharepoint Integration    ado0d    Verbose
Setting ParentID to 1    bf2fc29c-7727-b00d-fa4a-34f22ea9ec1d 10/15/2014 02:37:32.67    Microsoft.Office.Project.Server (0x07D8)    0x06E8    Project Server
Sharepoint Integration    ado0d    Verbose
Setting ParentID to 1    bf2fc29c-7727-b00d-fa4a-34f22ea9ec1d 10/15/2014 02:37:32.69    Microsoft.Office.Project.Server (0x07D8)    0x06E8    Project Server
Sharepoint Integration    ado0d    Verbose
Setting ParentID to 5    bf2fc29c-7727-b00d-fa4a-34f22ea9ec1d
The following is the complete Method’s code from the corresponded reflector:
private bool UpdateParentID(DataSet taskDS, DataRow row, SPListItem listItem, Dictionary<Guid, SPListItem> redoEntries)
bool flag = false;
int index = taskDS.Tables[0].DefaultView.Find((object) DataRowExtensions.Field<Guid>(row, "TASK_PARENT_UID"));
if (index >= 0)
Guid? nullable = DataRowExtensions.Field<Guid?>(taskDS.Tables[0].DefaultView[index].Row, "WSS_LISTITEM_UID");
int num = -1;
if (listItem.Fields.ContainsField("ParentID"))
if (nullable.HasValue)
try
// STEP 1
num = this.GetCachedListItemByUniqueId(listItem.ParentList, nullable.Value).ID;
catch (ArgumentException ex)
if (redoEntries != null)
if (!redoEntries.ContainsKey(DataRowExtensions.Field<Guid>(row, "TASK_UID")))
redoEntries.Add(DataRowExtensions.Field<Guid>(row, "TASK_UID"), listItem);
//STEP 2
if (num != -1 && ((SPItem) listItem)["ParentID"] != (System.ValueType) num)
((SPItem) listItem)["ParentID"] = (object) num;
ULS.SendTraceTag(845443U, (ULSCatBase) ULSCat.msoulscat_PS_ProjectSharepointIntegration, ULSTraceLevel.Verbose, "Setting ParentID to {0}", new object[1]
((SPItem) listItem)["ParentID"]
//STEP 3
flag = true;
else if (((SPItem) listItem)["ParentID"] != null)
((SPItem) listItem)["ParentID"] = (object) null;
ULS.SendTraceTag(2495056U, (ULSCatBase) ULSCat.msoulscat_PS_ProjectSharepointIntegration, ULSTraceLevel.Verbose, "Resetting ParentID to null");
flag = true;
return flag;
Any thoughts about it would be much appreciated!

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