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

  This catalog view contains a row for each service in the database.  
  
|Column name|Data type|Description|  
|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|  
|**name**|**sysname**|Case-sensitive name of service, unique within the database. Not NULLABLE.|  
|**service_id**|**int**|Identifier of the service. Not NULLABLE.|  
|**principal_id**|**int**|Identifier for the database principal that owns this service. NULLABLE.|  
|**service_queue_id**|**int**|Object id for the queue that this service uses. Not NULLABLE.|  
  
## Permissions  
 [!INCLUDE[ssCatViewPerm](../../includes/sscatviewperm-md.md)] For more information, see [Metadata Visibility Configuration](../../relational-databases/security/metadata-visibility-configuration.md).