Hi Micheal,
1. I have given Datatype for date as NVARCHAR and loaded into Hana DB. i was struggling whole day to convert this but which ever format i take in excel it is coming as text for month in HANA. so i loaded as it is into HANA DB. while creating IDT i will user data format function to convert so that it would be ok.
as you told i tried to change it to "07/18/1988" but in hana still it is coming month as "jul". i dont know whats wrong with this date format. we never faced these kinda difficulty in BW.
2. I am unable to find Hana DB size because i am not authorized to check it. i am loading 91MB data from excel sheet which contains 21 column fields. I am not sure how to load this huge file into HANA. i will contact administrator regarding this and see whether he can provide some solution.
BR
Sudha