diff --git a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/introduction/Configuration.adoc b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/introduction/Configuration.adoc
index fd63260b6f77..5056c7c6d204 100644
--- a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/introduction/Configuration.adoc
+++ b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/introduction/Configuration.adoc
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ As we mentioned <<testing,earlier>>, it can also be useful to control schema exp
 The link:{doc-javadoc-url}org/hibernate/relational/SchemaManager.html[`SchemaManager`] API allows programmatic control over schema export:
 
 [source,java]
-sessionFactory.getSchemaManager().export(true);
+sessionFactory.getSchemaManager().create(true);
 ====
 
 [[logging-generated-sql]]
diff --git a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/introduction/Introduction.adoc b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/introduction/Introduction.adoc
index 5295262ce5d0..0d5cbcf9ebdb 100644
--- a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/introduction/Introduction.adoc
+++ b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/introduction/Introduction.adoc
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ public class Main {
                         .createEntityManagerFactory();
 
         // export the inferred database schema
-        sessionFactory.getSchemaManager().export(true);
+        sessionFactory.getSchemaManager().create(true);
 
         // persist an entity
         sessionFactory.inTransaction(session -> {
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ This option is especially convenient when writing tests.
 
 [source,java]
 ----
-sessionFactory.getSchemaManager().export(true);
+sessionFactory.getSchemaManager().create(true);
 ----
 
 Since executing DDL statements is very slow on many databases, we don't want to do this before every test.