Failure when trying to follow best practices

[RandyPgh]

Our dataflows would not complete their refreshes this morning (they just kept running), so the best practices were consulted. The one piece of advice was to move the staging of data into a separate dataflow. I did this, and now all dataflows fail, even the staging one, because of what is reported as a downstream error. Should the Staging Dataflow fail because of an error in a downstream dataflow?

[RandyPgh · Accepted solution]

The error was being thrown in the Staging Dataflows, but it was reported in the downstream dataflow. Once the issue had been corrected in Staging Dataflows, the others also processed.