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 3c2fbcdef1e69..fe193c14ca035 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
@@ -1104,6 +1104,9 @@ 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
@@ -1128,6 +1131,9 @@ 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
@@ -1144,6 +1150,9 @@ 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
@@ -1160,6 +1169,9 @@ 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
@@ -1181,6 +1193,9 @@ 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