This is occurring during the end of the analysis when the DTA tries to drop the indexes it created. Unfortunately, with the database in use, this is causing terrible blocking issues. Is there a way to prevent this?
Using SQL Server 2008
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the only way to get rid of this is to not run the DTA on a live db.
create a backup of the live db, restore it, and run DTA on that.