EF Core - Table '*.__EFMigrationsHistory' doesn't exist

Question

I want to stress out that this is .NET Core and the threads about EF 6.0 does not apply to this problem

I created my DbContext and added it in DI, however when I do dotnet ef database update -v it does not want to create the migrations table __EFMigrationsHistory.

Is there some other command that I should do first or this is a bug of EF Core MySQL adapter?

MainDbContext

using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using MySQL.Data.EntityFrameworkCore.Extensions;
using Web.Models;

namespace Web.Infrastructure
{
    public class MainDbContext : DbContext
    {
        public DbSet<User> Users { get; set; }

        protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
        {
            optionsBuilder.UseMySQL("connection-string-here");
            base.OnConfiguring(optionsBuilder);
        }
    }
}

Error

Finding DbContext classes...

Using context 'MainDbContext'.

Using database 'db' on server 'localhost'.

MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Table 'db.__EFMigrationsHistory' doesn't exist

Table 'db.__EFMigrationsHistory' doesn't exist ```

project.json

{
  "dependencies": {
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      "version": "1.0.1",
      "type": "platform"
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    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc": "1.0.1",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Tools": {
      "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
      "type": "build"
    },
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing": "1.0.1",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel": "1.0.1",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.EnvironmentVariables": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Options.ConfigurationExtensions": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.BrowserLink.Loader": "14.0.0",
    "BundlerMinifier.Core": "2.2.301",
    "WebMarkupMin.AspNetCore1": "2.2.1",
    "MySql.Data.EntityFrameworkCore": "7.0.6-IR31",
    "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design": "1.0.0-preview2-final"
  },
  "tools": {
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
    "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final"
  },
  "frameworks": {
    "netcoreapp1.0": {
      "imports": [
        "dotnet5.6",
        "portable-net45+win8"
      ]
    }
  },
  "buildOptions": {
    "emitEntryPoint": true,
    "preserveCompilationContext": true
  },
  "runtimeOptions": {
    "configProperties": {
      "System.GC.Server": true
    }
  },
  "publishOptions": {
    "include": [
      "wwwroot",
      "**/*.cshtml",
      "appsettings.json",
      "web.config"
    ]
  },
  "scripts": {
    "prepublish": [ "bower install", "dotnet bundle" ],
    "postpublish": [ "dotnet publish-iis --publish-folder %publish:OutputPath% --framework %publish:FullTargetFramework%" ]
  }
}

Temp Solution

By executing dotnet ef migrations script I get SQL code that I can execute directly in MySQL. After that migrations table is created and everything works normally. This is temp-solution which is bad. I still wonder what is the "correct" way of enabling migrations.

Answer 1

Turning Mark G's comment into an answer.

Once the __EFMigrationsHistory table has been created, the rest of the update should run.

CREATE TABLE `__EFMigrationsHistory` ( `MigrationId` nvarchar(150) NOT NULL, `ProductVersion` nvarchar(32) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`MigrationId`) );

Alternatively, generate the script of your migration(s) and apply to the database manually using this command in Package Manager Console:

Script-Migration

If you need to generate All scripts, you can use this command:

Script-Migration -from 0