diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/components/ResultSet.tsx b/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/components/ResultSet.tsx
index 4f1c788b1e..87f08d9580 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/components/ResultSet.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/components/ResultSet.tsx
@@ -25,11 +25,16 @@ import { RadioChangeEvent } from 'antd/lib/radio';
 import Button from 'src/components/Button';
 import shortid from 'shortid';
 import rison from 'rison';
-import { styled, t, makeApi } from '@superset-ui/core';
+import {
+  styled,
+  t,
+  makeApi,
+  SupersetClient,
+  JsonResponse,
+} from '@superset-ui/core';
 import { debounce } from 'lodash';
 import ErrorMessageWithStackTrace from 'src/components/ErrorMessage/ErrorMessageWithStackTrace';
 import { SaveDatasetModal } from 'src/SqlLab/components/SaveDatasetModal';
-import { put as updateDatset } from 'src/api/dataset';
 import { UserWithPermissionsAndRoles } from 'src/types/bootstrapTypes';
 import Loading from '../../components/Loading';
 import ExploreCtasResultsButton from './ExploreCtasResultsButton';
@@ -133,6 +138,27 @@ const ResultSetErrorMessage = styled.div`
   padding-top: ${({ theme }) => 4 * theme.gridUnit}px;
 `;
 
+const updateDataset = async (
+  datasetId: number,
+  sql: string,
+  columns: Array<Record<string, any>>,
+  overrideColumns: boolean,
+) => {
+  const endpoint = `api/v1/dataset/${datasetId}?override_columns=${overrideColumns}`;
+  const headers = { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' };
+  const body = JSON.stringify({
+    sql,
+    columns,
+  });
+
+  const data: JsonResponse = await SupersetClient.put({
+    endpoint,
+    headers,
+    body,
+  });
+  return data.json.result;
+};
+
 export default class ResultSet extends React.PureComponent<
   ResultSetProps,
   ResultSetState
@@ -236,12 +262,11 @@ export default class ResultSet extends React.PureComponent<
   };
 
   handleOverwriteDataset = async () => {
-    const { sql, results, dbId } = this.props.query;
+    const { sql, results } = this.props.query;
     const { datasetToOverwrite } = this.state;
 
-    await updateDatset(
+    await updateDataset(
       datasetToOverwrite.datasetId,
-      dbId,
       sql,
       results.selected_columns.map(d => ({ column_name: d.name })),
       true,
diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/api/dataset.ts b/superset-frontend/src/api/dataset.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index d426daffdd..0000000000
--- a/superset-frontend/src/api/dataset.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-import { SupersetClient, JsonResponse } from '@superset-ui/core';
-import rison from 'rison';
-
-export const getByUser = async (userId: number) => {
-  const queryParams = rison.encode({
-    filters: [
-      {
-        col: 'owners',
-        opr: 'rel_m_m',
-        value: userId,
-      },
-    ],
-    order_column: 'changed_on_delta_humanized',
-    order_direction: 'desc',
-  });
-  const endpoint = `/api/v1/dataset?q=${queryParams}`;
-  const data: JsonResponse = await SupersetClient.get({
-    endpoint,
-  });
-  return data.json.result;
-};
-
-export const put = async (
-  datasetId: number,
-  dbId: number,
-  sql: string,
-  columns: Array<Record<string, any>>,
-  overrideColumns: boolean,
-) => {
-  const endpoint = `api/v1/dataset/${datasetId}?override_columns=${overrideColumns}`;
-  const headers = { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' };
-  const body = JSON.stringify({
-    sql,
-    columns,
-    database_id: dbId,
-  });
-
-  const data: JsonResponse = await SupersetClient.put({
-    endpoint,
-    headers,
-    body,
-  });
-  return data.json.result;
-};
diff --git a/superset/datasets/commands/update.py b/superset/datasets/commands/update.py
index cb1016c7a0..9ae2bd4a18 100644
--- a/superset/datasets/commands/update.py
+++ b/superset/datasets/commands/update.py
@@ -65,9 +65,7 @@ class UpdateDatasetCommand(UpdateMixin, BaseCommand):
         if self._model:
             try:
                 dataset = DatasetDAO.update(
-                    model=self._model,
-                    properties=self._properties,
-                    override_columns=self.override_columns,
+                    model=self._model, properties=self._properties,
                 )
                 return dataset
             except DAOUpdateFailedError as ex:
diff --git a/superset/datasets/dao.py b/superset/datasets/dao.py
index 8aee37bbe1..b58622b9df 100644
--- a/superset/datasets/dao.py
+++ b/superset/datasets/dao.py
@@ -144,31 +144,22 @@ class DatasetDAO(BaseDAO):  # pylint: disable=too-many-public-methods
 
     @classmethod
     def update(  # pylint: disable=arguments-differ
-        cls,
-        model: SqlaTable,
-        properties: Dict[str, Any],
-        commit: bool = True,
-        override_columns: bool = False,
+        cls, model: SqlaTable, properties: Dict[str, Any], commit: bool = True
     ) -> Optional[SqlaTable]:
         """
         Updates a Dataset model on the metadata DB
         """
+
         if "columns" in properties:
             properties["columns"] = cls.update_columns(
                 model, properties.get("columns", []), commit=commit
             )
+
         if "metrics" in properties:
             properties["metrics"] = cls.update_metrics(
                 model, properties.get("metrics", []), commit=commit
             )
 
-        if override_columns:
-            # remove columns initially for full refresh
-            original_properties = properties["columns"]
-            properties["columns"] = []
-            super().update(model, properties, commit=commit)
-            properties["columns"] = original_properties
-
         return super().update(model, properties, commit=False)
 
     @classmethod