I didn't mean to take over this question, but it is pertinent I think.
When you say pushdown ... do u mean i should write out a table after the first join?
I changed the DOP to 10 btw.
Here is the flow
It stops on that sort step. Here is the recent error message I have:
17271 1844848416 SYS-170105 5/1/2014 1:45:35 PM Cannot write onto Disk (files). OS Error:
17271 1844848416 RUN-050409 5/1/2014 1:45:35 PM The job process could not communicate with the data flowprocess. For details, see previously logged error.