diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/components/ResultSet/index.tsx b/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/components/ResultSet/index.tsx
index 8c6610191ebbe..83b6bb3f55b88 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/components/ResultSet/index.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/components/ResultSet/index.tsx
@@ -248,6 +248,10 @@ export default class ResultSet extends React.PureComponent<
       );
     }
 
+    // Only fetch results if the result key change
+    // If we didn't have a result key before, then the results are loaded elsewhere
+    // so we can skip it, unless the query id changed, in that case we should
+    // refetch regardless.
     if (
       (this.props.query.resultsKey &&
         nextProps.query.resultsKey &&