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# Create a workspace

A workspace is the compute you attach to a database. You create one in two places:

* **Step 2 of Create Workgroup** — after you click **Next** on [Create a workgroup](../workgroups/how2-create-a-workgroup.md), you must create the first workspace for that workgroup.
* **Inside an existing workgroup** — open the workgroup and click **Create Workspace** to add another workspace, for example a read-only workspace on the same database.

If Savanna just finished sign-up provisioning, you already have a workspace. Wait until its status is **active**, then go to [Design a schema](../../graph-development/design-schema/index.md).

## Create the workspace

1. If you are not already on **Create Workspace** (step 2), open **Workgroups** and click **Create Workspace**.  
![workspacecreate](../_images/workspacecreate.png)
2. Name the workspace.  
![workspaceinfo](../_images/workspaceinfo.png)
3. Select a TigerGraph workspace runtime.
4. Choose a size and any advanced settings you need now. You can change size later. See [Choose a workspace size](workspace-size.md) and [Workspace settings](settings.md).  
![workspaceDetails](../_images/workspaceDetails.png)
5. Create a new database, or attach this workspace to an existing one. A new database makes this workspace read-write. Attaching to an existing database makes it read-only. See [Read-write and read-only](readwrite-readonly.md).
6. Optionally add a [solution](../../integrations/solutions.md) or [add-ons](../../integrations/add-ons.md). You can do this later from workspace settings.  
![solution add on](../_images/solution-add-on.png)  
![Add onsimage](../_images/Add-onsimage.png)
7. Click **Create**. If this is step 2 of a new workgroup, that finishes both the workgroup and the workspace.  
> [!NOTE]  
> A database can have only one read-write workspace.  
> [!NOTE]  
> If you terminate the read-write workspace, you cannot create another one for that database.
8. The workspace starts to build. Watch progress on the **General** tab.  
![workspace general tab](../_images/workspace-general-tab.png)
9. When it is ready, use the workspace tab for compute details and the database tab for the attached data.  
![workspace info tab](../_images/workspace-info-tab.png)  
![workspace database tab](../_images/workspace-database-tab.png)

## Where to go next

* [Design a schema](../../graph-development/design-schema/index.md) on the new workspace
* [Workspace settings](settings.md)