title: "sys.routes (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs" ms.custom: "" ms.date: "03/30/2018" ms.prod: "sql" ms.prod_service: "database-engine" ms.service: "" ms.component: "system-catalog-views" ms.reviewer: "" ms.suite: "sql" ms.technology:
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- "routes"
- "routes_TSQL"
- "sys.routes"
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- "sys.routes catalog view" ms.assetid: 8fc65915-8bd6-425b-95d9-6a8468cb1e48 caps.latest.revision: 33 author: "stevestein" ms.author: "sstein" manager: "craigg" ms.workload: "Inactive" monikerRange: "= azuresqldb-mi-current || >= sql-server-2016 || = sqlallproducts-allversions"
[!INCLUDEtsql-appliesto-ss2008-asdbmi-xxxx-xxx-md]
This catalog views contains one row per route. Service Broker uses routes to locate the network address for a service.
[!INCLUDEssMIlimitation]
| Column name | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name | sysname | Name of the route, unique within the database. Not NULLABLE. |
| route_id | int | Identifier for the route. Not NULLABLE. |
| principal_id | int | Identifier for the database principal that owns the route. NULLABLE. |
| remote_service_name | nvarchar(256) | Name of the remote service. NULLABLE. |
| broker_instance | nvarchar(128) | Identifier of the broker that hosts the remote service. NULLABLE. |
| lifetime | datetime | The date and time when the route expires. Notice that this value does not use the local time zone. Instead, the value shows the expiration time for UTC. NULLABLE. |
| address | nvarchar(256) | Network address to which Service Broker sends messages for the remote service. NULLABLE. For SQL Database Managed Instance, address must be local. |
| mirror_address | nvarchar(256) | Network address of the mirroring partner for the server specified in the address. NULLABLE. |
[!INCLUDEssCatViewPerm] For more information, see Metadata Visibility Configuration.