diff --git a/samples/databases/wide-world-importers/README.md b/samples/databases/wide-world-importers/README.md
index 4b127bd7..04cb77b7 100644
--- a/samples/databases/wide-world-importers/README.md
+++ b/samples/databases/wide-world-importers/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # WideWorldImporters Sample Database for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database
 
-WideWorldImporters is a sample for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. It showcases best practices in database design, as well as how to best leverage SQL Server features in a database.
+WideWorldImporters is a sample for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. It showcases database design, as well as how to best leverage SQL Server features in a database.
 
 WideWorldImporters is a wholesale company. Transactions and real-time analytics are performed in the database WideWorldImporters. The database WideWorldImportersDW is an OLAP database, focused on analytics.
 
diff --git a/samples/databases/wide-world-importers/documentation/root.md b/samples/databases/wide-world-importers/documentation/root.md
index 27a29da5..83f9f1ba 100644
--- a/samples/databases/wide-world-importers/documentation/root.md
+++ b/samples/databases/wide-world-importers/documentation/root.md
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # Wide World Importers Sample for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database
 
-Wide World Importers is a comprehensive database sample that both illustrates best practices in database design, and illustrates how SQL Server features can be leveraged in an application.
+Wide World Importers is a comprehensive database sample that both illustrates database design, and illustrates how SQL Server features can be leveraged in an application.
+
+Note that the sample is meant to be representative of a typical database. It does not include every feature of SQL Server. The design of the database follows one common set of standards, but there are many ways one might build a database.
 
 The source code for the sample can be found on the SQL Server Samples GitHub repository:
 [wide-world-importers](https://github.com/Microsoft/sql-server-samples/tree/master/samples/databases/wide-world-importers).
diff --git a/samples/databases/wide-world-importers/sample-scripts/in-memory-oltp/README.md b/samples/databases/wide-world-importers/sample-scripts/in-memory-oltp/README.md
index 1b29fc0d..2e6192f8 100644
--- a/samples/databases/wide-world-importers/sample-scripts/in-memory-oltp/README.md
+++ b/samples/databases/wide-world-importers/sample-scripts/in-memory-oltp/README.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ To run this sample, you need the following prerequisites.
 
 This script creates comparable disk-based and memory-optimized tables, as well as corresponding stored procedures, for vehicle location insertion.
 
-It then compares the performance of single-threaded insert of 500,000 row:
+It then compares the performance of single-threaded insert of 500,000 rows:
  - into a disk-based table
  - into a memory-optimized table
  - into a memory-optimized table, with rows generated in a natively compiled stored procedure