diff --git a/how-to-use-azureml/machine-learning-pipelines/intro-to-pipelines/aml-pipelines-use-databricks-as-compute-target.ipynb b/how-to-use-azureml/machine-learning-pipelines/intro-to-pipelines/aml-pipelines-use-databricks-as-compute-target.ipynb
index cb3f66e8..68c9be22 100644
--- a/how-to-use-azureml/machine-learning-pipelines/intro-to-pipelines/aml-pipelines-use-databricks-as-compute-target.ipynb
+++ b/how-to-use-azureml/machine-learning-pipelines/intro-to-pipelines/aml-pipelines-use-databricks-as-compute-target.ipynb
@@ -428,6 +428,7 @@
       "source": [
         "steps = [dbNbStep]\n",
         "pipeline = Pipeline(workspace=ws, steps=steps)\n",
+        "pipeline.validate()\n",
         "pipeline_run = Experiment(ws, 'DB_Notebook_demo').submit(pipeline)\n",
         "pipeline_run.wait_for_completion()"
       ]