diff --git a/airflow/hooks/dbapi_hook.py b/airflow/hooks/dbapi_hook.py
index 5ca7ae438c47c..11957ffe2df4f 100644
--- a/airflow/hooks/dbapi_hook.py
+++ b/airflow/hooks/dbapi_hook.py
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ def get_conn(self):
     def get_pandas_df(self, sql, parameters=None):
         '''
         Executes the sql and returns a pandas dataframe
+
+        :param sql: the sql statement to be executed (str) or a list of
+            sql statements to execute
+        :type sql: str or list
+        :param parameters: The parameters to render the SQL query with.
+        :type parameters: mapping or iterable
         '''
         import pandas.io.sql as psql
         conn = self.get_conn()
@@ -56,6 +62,12 @@ def get_pandas_df(self, sql, parameters=None):
     def get_records(self, sql, parameters=None):
         '''
         Executes the sql and returns a set of records.
+
+        :param sql: the sql statement to be executed (str) or a list of
+            sql statements to execute
+        :type sql: str or list
+        :param parameters: The parameters to render the SQL query with.
+        :type parameters: mapping or iterable
         '''
         conn = self.get_conn()
         cur = self.get_cursor()
@@ -70,7 +82,13 @@ def get_records(self, sql, parameters=None):
 
     def get_first(self, sql, parameters=None):
         '''
-        Executes the sql and returns a set of records.
+        Executes the sql and returns the first resulting row.
+
+        :param sql: the sql statement to be executed (str) or a list of
+            sql statements to execute
+        :type sql: str or list
+        :param parameters: The parameters to render the SQL query with.
+        :type parameters: mapping or iterable
         '''
         conn = self.get_conn()
         cur = conn.cursor()
@@ -92,6 +110,11 @@ def run(self, sql, autocommit=False, parameters=None):
         :param sql: the sql statement to be executed (str) or a list of
             sql statements to execute
         :type sql: str or list
+        :param autocommit: What to set the connection's autocommit setting to
+            before executing the query.
+        :type autocommit: bool
+        :param parameters: The parameters to render the SQL query with.
+        :type parameters: mapping or iterable
         """
         conn = self.get_conn()
         if isinstance(sql, basestring):
@@ -124,6 +147,16 @@ def insert_rows(self, table, rows, target_fields=None, commit_every=1000):
         """
         A generic way to insert a set of tuples into a table,
         the whole set of inserts is treated as one transaction
+
+        :param table: Name of the target table
+        :type table: str
+        :param rows: The rows to insert into the table
+        :type rows: iterable of tuples
+        :param target_fields: The names of the columns to fill in the table
+        :type target_fields: iterable of strings
+        :param commit_every: The maximum number of rows to insert in one
+            transaction. Set to 0 to insert all rows in one transaction.
+        :type commit_every: int
         """
         if target_fields:
             target_fields = ", ".join(target_fields)
@@ -147,7 +180,7 @@ def insert_rows(self, table, rows, target_fields=None, commit_every=1000):
                 target_fields,
                 ",".join(values))
             cur.execute(sql)
-            if i % commit_every == 0:
+            if commit_every and i % commit_every == 0:
                 conn.commit()
                 logging.info(
                     "Loaded {i} into {table} rows so far".format(**locals()))
@@ -173,5 +206,10 @@ def _serialize_cell(cell):
     def bulk_load(self, table, tmp_file):
         """
         Loads a tab-delimited file into a database table
+
+        :param table: The name of the target table
+        :type table: str
+        :param tmp_file: The path of the file to load into the table
+        :type tmp_file: str
         """
         raise NotImplementedError()