diff --git a/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQuery.java b/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQuery.java
index 719f99c5de..e83cb6f18d 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQuery.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQuery.java
@@ -775,11 +775,6 @@ public int hashCode() {
    *             .setUseQueryCache(true)
    *             .build();
    *       Connection connection = bigquery.createConnection(connectionSettings);
-   *       try {
-   *           connection.executeSelect("SELECT 1");
-   *       } catch (BigQuerySQLException ex) {
-   *           // handle exception
-   *       }
    * }
    * </pre>
    *
diff --git a/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/Connection.java b/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/Connection.java
index 069b2df745..be6b62032e 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/Connection.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/Connection.java
@@ -40,17 +40,39 @@ public interface Connection {
   BigQueryDryRunResult dryRun(String sql) throws BigQuerySQLException;
 
   /**
-   * Execute a SQL statement that returns a single BigQueryResultSet
+   * Execute a SQL statement that returns a single ResultSet
+   *
+   * <p>Example of running a query.
+   *
+   * <pre>
+   * {
+   *   &#64;code
+   *   // ConnectionSettings connectionSettings =
+   *   //     ConnectionSettings.newBuilder()
+   *   //         .setRequestTimeout(10L)
+   *   //         .setMaxResults(100L)
+   *   //         .setUseQueryCache(true)
+   *   //         .build();
+   *   // Connection connection = bigquery.createConnection(connectionSettings);
+   *   String selectQuery = "SELECT corpus FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.shakespeare` GROUP BY corpus;";
+   *   try (ResultSet rs = connection.executeSelect(selectQuery)) {
+   *       while (rs.next()) {
+   *           System.out.printf("%s,", rs.getString("corpus"));
+   *       }
+   *   } catch (BigQuerySQLException ex) {
+   *       // handle exception
+   *   }
+   * }
+   * </pre>
    *
    * @param sql a static SQL SELECT statement
-   * @param options JobOptions in case a query job is created for this query
-   * @return a BigQueryResultSet that contains the data produced by the query
+   * @return a ResultSet that contains the data produced by the query
    * @exception BigQuerySQLException if a database access error occurs
    */
   ResultSet executeSelect(String sql) throws BigQuerySQLException;
 
   /**
-   * Execute a SQL statement with query parameters that returns a single BigQueryResultSet
+   * Execute a SQL statement with query parameters that returns a single ResultSet
    *
    * @param sql typically a static SQL SELECT statement
    * @param parameters named or positional parameters. The set of query parameters must either be
@@ -61,8 +83,7 @@ public interface Connection {
    *     contain lowercase letters, numeric characters, underscores and dashes. International
    *     characters are allowed. Label values are optional. Label keys must start with a letter and
    *     each label in the list must have a different key.
-   * @param options JobOptions in case a query job is created for this query
-   * @return a BigQueryResultSet that contains the data produced by the query
+   * @return a ResultSet that contains the data produced by the query
    * @exception BigQuerySQLException if a database access error occurs
    */
   ResultSet executeSelect(String sql, List<QueryParameter> parameters, Map<String, String> labels)