diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrame.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrame.scala
index c92ca607fb..729cfc1da2 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrame.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrame.scala
@@ -1192,6 +1192,9 @@ class DataFrame private[sql](
    * there is no notion of a persisted catalog in a standard SQL context.  Instead you can write
    * an RDD out to a parquet file, and then register that file as a table.  This "table" can then
    * be the target of an `insertInto`.
+   *
+   * Also note that while this function can persist the table metadata into Hive's metastore,
+   * the table will NOT be accessible from Hive.
    * @group output
    */
   @Experimental
@@ -1208,6 +1211,9 @@ class DataFrame private[sql](
    * there is no notion of a persisted catalog in a standard SQL context.  Instead you can write
    * an RDD out to a parquet file, and then register that file as a table.  This "table" can then
    * be the target of an `insertInto`.
+   *
+   * Also note that while this function can persist the table metadata into Hive's metastore,
+   * the table will NOT be accessible from Hive.
    * @group output
    */
   @Experimental
@@ -1232,6 +1238,9 @@ class DataFrame private[sql](
    * there is no notion of a persisted catalog in a standard SQL context.  Instead you can write
    * an RDD out to a parquet file, and then register that file as a table.  This "table" can then
    * be the target of an `insertInto`.
+   *
+   * Also note that while this function can persist the table metadata into Hive's metastore,
+   * the table will NOT be accessible from Hive.
    * @group output
    */
   @Experimental
@@ -1248,6 +1257,9 @@ class DataFrame private[sql](
    * there is no notion of a persisted catalog in a standard SQL context.  Instead you can write
    * an RDD out to a parquet file, and then register that file as a table.  This "table" can then
    * be the target of an `insertInto`.
+   *
+   * Also note that while this function can persist the table metadata into Hive's metastore,
+   * the table will NOT be accessible from Hive.
    * @group output
    */
   @Experimental
@@ -1264,6 +1276,9 @@ class DataFrame private[sql](
    * there is no notion of a persisted catalog in a standard SQL context.  Instead you can write
    * an RDD out to a parquet file, and then register that file as a table.  This "table" can then
    * be the target of an `insertInto`.
+   *
+   * Also note that while this function can persist the table metadata into Hive's metastore,
+   * the table will NOT be accessible from Hive.
    * @group output
    */
   @Experimental
@@ -1285,6 +1300,9 @@ class DataFrame private[sql](
    * there is no notion of a persisted catalog in a standard SQL context.  Instead you can write
    * an RDD out to a parquet file, and then register that file as a table.  This "table" can then
    * be the target of an `insertInto`.
+   *
+   * Also note that while this function can persist the table metadata into Hive's metastore,
+   * the table will NOT be accessible from Hive.
    * @group output
    */
   @Experimental