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.

翻译：本研究探究并分析了不同专业方向二年级学生对数据库课程的期望，以及他们对从事数据库相关领域职业的兴趣如何反映市场需求。研究参与者提供了两组匿名收集的答案（分别于课程初期和中期收集），从而能够追踪其兴趣随课程深入而变化的轨迹。通过调查学生的经验与初始知识水平，我们发现他们虽了解SQL、数据库的可用性及重要性，但认为数据库知识仅会偶尔使用。尽管非本文初衷，研究还发现男性比女性更倾向于深入学习（获取安全性、性能、复杂度等数据库相关信息）。在参与者样本中，从191名注册学生中收集了87份有效问卷，并采用主题分析法进行解读。