Identifying the Count of Activities within a Pipeline in Synapse

Problem Statement

As of Feb 05, 2022; there is a limitation in Synapse wherein a user can add only 40 activities within a pipeline, and in case if the number of activities within a pipeline exceeds 40, the user gets the below error.

DataSharkX

So how can one get the count of activities within an existing pipeline?

Prerequisites

Synapse
Powershell

Solution

1. Open Powershell in admin mode and import the Azure SDK modules by executing the below commands.

Import-Module Az.Accounts
Import-Module Az.Synapse

2. Install the custom module by executing the below command.

Install-Module -Name AzSynapseActivities

3. Now the environment is set for us to execute the commands to fetch the pipeline details.

To get the list of all pipelines in Synapse and its corresponding activity list and activity count, execute the below command.
```
Get-AzSynapseActivities -WorkspaceName “<WorkspaceName>”
```
To get the details of a specific pipeline in Synapse and its corresponding activity list and activity count, execute the below command.
```
Get-AzSynapseActivities -WorkspaceName “<WorkspaceName>” -PipelineName “<PipelineName>”
```

Output Results

1. Overall Synapse output

Pipelines

2. Specific Pipeline output

Activities

This would avoid manually counting the number of activities within any pipelines.