# Create databases in Athena
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A database in Athena is a logical grouping for tables you create in it. Before you create a database, you create a query output location.

**Topics**
+ [Create a query output location](creating-databases-prerequisites.md)
+ [Create a database](creating-databases-query-editor.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon Athena. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query athena` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).