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# sys.routes (Transact-SQL)
[!INCLUDE[tsql-appliesto-ss2008-xxxx-xxxx-xxx_md](../../includes/tsql-appliesto-ss2008-xxxx-xxxx-xxx-md.md)]

  This catalog views contains one row per route. Service Broker uses routes to locate the network address for a service.   
  
|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.|  
|**mirror_address**|**nvarchar(256)**|Network address of the mirroring partner for the server specified in the address. NULLABLE.|  
  
## Permissions  
 [!INCLUDE[ssCatViewPerm](../../includes/sscatviewperm-md.md)] For more information, see [Metadata Visibility Configuration](../../relational-databases/security/metadata-visibility-configuration.md).