System, method, and various embodiments for providing a metadata converter and memory management system are described herein. An embodiment operates by determining that first metadata corresponding to a table of a database comprising load preferences for a column level for a plurality of columns of the table, wherein the load preferences include either column load or page load. It is determined that the database is enabled with both load preferences for a table level and load preferences partition level, in addition to load preferences for the column level. Values for the load preferences are automatically assigned for both the table level and the partition level in second metadata, and wherein the second metadata preserves the load preferences for the column level of the first metadata. A query against the table based on load preferences from the second metadata.