Everything touches databases these days. Web apps, desktop tools, mobile games, the lot.
Sorry for being a little off topic, but are these people interviewing for web-related work?SQL and how to program. It's alarming how many I've personally interviewed who can't write a simple CRUD application without hand holding.
Even non-networked applications often talk to a local SQLite instance...
Ew...
Ew...Even non-networked applications often talk to a local SQLite instance...
It's not as bad as you think. If you want to store indexed, searchable data, then an existing database implementation should probably be your first choice.
Even many system services we all take for granted are backed by these technologies. For example, both Android's settings database, and iOS/Mac's Core Data infrastructure. are each just an SQLite database under the covers.
