The S(2) control charts are fundamental tools widely used to monitor the process dispersion in applications of Statistical Process Monitoring and Control. Phase II performance of different types of control charts, including the S(2) chart, with unknown process parameters may be significantly different from the nominal performance due to the effect of parameter estimation. In the last few years, this effect has been addressed predominantly under the conditional perspective, which considers the variability of parameter estimates obtained from different Phase I reference samples instead of the traditional unconditional performance measures based on the marginal (unconditional) run length (RL) distribution, such as the unconditional average run length. In light of this new conditional perspective, the analysis of the Phase II performance and design of control charts is frequently undertaken using the Exceedance Probability Criterion for the conditional (given the parameter estimates) in-control average run length (CARL 0), that is, the criterion that ensures a high probability that the CARL 0 is at least a specified minimum tolerated value. Tolerance intervals for sample variances are useful when the main concern is the precision of the values of the quality characteristic and then they can be used in decision-making on lot acceptance sampling. Motivated by the fact that these tolerance intervals, specifically in the case of the two-sided intervals, have not been addressed in the literature so far, exact and approximate two-sided tolerance limits for the population of sample variances are derived and presented in this work. The mathematical-statistical relationship between tolerance interval for the sample variance and the exceedance probability (survival probability) of the CARL 0 for the S(2) control chart with estimated parameter is recognized, highlighted and used in this work in such a way that the study of the Phase II performance and design of this chart can be based on tolerance interval for the sample variance, and vice versa. Works on performance and design of S(2) chart with estimated parameter generally focused on only one perspective (either unconditional or conditional) and considered only one type of chart (either upper one-sided chart or two-sided chart). The existence of both perspectives and two types of charts may be confusing for practitioners. For that reason, the performance and design of S(2) control chart according to these two perspectives are compared, considering each type of chart. Similarly, these two types of charts are also compared for each perspective. Some important results related to the S(2) chart design, which are not yet available in the literature, were required and obtained in this work to provide a comprehensive comparative study that enables practitioners to be aware of the significant differences between these two perspectives and the two types of charts so that proper informed decisions about the chart design to choose can be made. Furthermore, because the conditional RL distribution is usually highly rightskewed, the median and some extreme quantiles of the conditional RL distribution are proposed as complementary performance measures to the customary mean (CARL 0). Finally, some practical recommendations are offered.