Table 'performance_schema.session_variables' doesn't exist

Question

After upgrading MySQL to 5.7.8-rc and loging to server I got error:

Table \'performance_schema.session_variables\' doesn\'t exist

I can\'t

Answer 1

For my system the problem ended up being that I still had Mysql 5.6 installed and so the mysql_upgrade.exe from that installation was being called instead of the one for 5.7. Navigate to C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.7\bin and run .\mysql_upgrade.exe -u root