diff --git a/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/README.md b/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/README.md
index f6f1cfa..1c62115 100644
--- a/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/README.md
+++ b/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/README.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ This distro automatically installs the following libraries:
 
 ## Officially supported instrumentations
 
-The following OpenTelemetry instrumentations come bundled in with the Azure monitor distro. If you would like to add support for another OpenTelemetry instrumentation, please submit a feature [request][distro_feature_request]. In the meantime, you can use the OpenTelemetry instrumentation manually via it's own APIs (i.e. `instrument()`) in your code.
+The following OpenTelemetry instrumentations come bundled in with the Azure monitor distro. If you would like to add support for another OpenTelemetry instrumentation, please submit a feature [request][distro_feature_request]. In the meantime, you can use the OpenTelemetry instrumentation manually via it's own APIs (i.e. `instrument()`) in your code. See [this][samples_manual] for an example.
 
 * [OpenTelemetry Django Instrumentation][opentelemetry_instrumentation_django]
 * [OpenTelemetry FastApi Instrumentation][opentelemetry_instrumentation_fastapi]
@@ -131,3 +131,4 @@ Samples are available [here][samples] to demonstrate how to utilize the above co
 [python]: https://www.python.org/downloads/
 [pip]: https://pypi.org/project/pip/
 [samples]: https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Python/tree/main/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples
+[samples_manual]: https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Python/tree/main/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/manual.py
diff --git a/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/db_psycopg2.py b/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/db_psycopg2.py
index e6aa9a4..72bfab9 100644
--- a/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/db_psycopg2.py
+++ b/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/db_psycopg2.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ configure_azure_monitor(
     tracing_export_interval_millis=15000,
 )
 
+# Database calls using the psycopg2 library will be automatically captured
 cnx = psycopg2.connect(database="test", user="<user>", password="<password>")
 cursor = cnx.cursor()
 cursor.execute("INSERT INTO test_tables (test_field) VALUES (123)")
diff --git a/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/manual.py b/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/manual.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..285c1fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/manual.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+# Licensed under the MIT License. See License in the project root for
+# license information.
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
+
+from azure.monitor.opentelemetry import configure_azure_monitor
+from opentelemetry.instrumentation.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemyInstrumentor
+
+configure_azure_monitor(
+    connection_string="<your-connection-string>",
+    tracing_export_interval_millis=15000,
+    disable_logging=True,
+    disable_metrics=True,
+)
+
+engine = create_engine("sqlite:///:memory:")
+# SQLAlchemy instrumentation is not officially supported by this package
+# However, you can use the OpenTelemetry instument method manually in
+# conjunction with configure_azure_monitor
+SQLAlchemyInstrumentor().instrument(
+    engine=engine,
+)
+
+# Database calls using the SqlAlchemy library will be automatically captured
+with engine.connect() as conn:
+    result = conn.execute(text("select 'hello world'"))
+    print(result.all())
+
+input()
diff --git a/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/sampling.py b/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/sampling.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ad0c8a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/sampling.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+# Licensed under the MIT License. See License in the project root for
+# license information.
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+from azure.monitor.opentelemetry import configure_azure_monitor
+from opentelemetry import trace
+
+configure_azure_monitor(
+    connection_string="<your-connection-string>",
+    # Sampling ratio of between 0 and 1 inclusive
+    # 0.1 means approximately 10% of your traces are sent
+    sampling_ratio=0.1,
+    tracing_export_interval_millis=15000,
+    disable_logging=True,
+    disable_metrics=True,
+)
+
+tracer = trace.get_tracer(__name__)
+
+for i in range(100):
+    # Approximately 90% of these spans should be sampled out
+    with tracer.start_as_current_span("hello"):
+        print("Hello, World!")
+
+input()