  This study explores and analyses the expectations of second-year students
enrolled in different lines of study related to Database course, as their
interest in having a carrier path in a database related domain and how it
reflects the job demands from the market. The participants in the study
provided two sets of answers, anonymously collected (in the begging and in the
middle of the course), thus allowing us to track how their interests changed as
long as they found out more about the subject. We asked for their experience
and initial knowledge, we found out that they are aware of the SQL and
usability and importance of databases, but they appreciated the database
knowledge will be used occasionally. Even if it was not the original scope of
the paper, we also found out that men are more interested in learning in depth
(acquiring security, performance, complexity database related information) than
women do. In terms of the participants set, there were 87 answers from 191
enrolled students that were analyzed and interpreted using thematic analysis.
