Buried amongst the avalanche of software being released by Microsoft at the moment is a piece of software called Powershell. Its a replacement for the venerable DOS command line, providing all of its abilities and much more besides, its actually more akin to the power available from a UNIX/Linux command console than DOS but then I think that's where the inspiration comes from.
Database is a term that means different things to different people. That's if you know what one is at all, quite often there seems to be an assumption that someone will know what a database is, and human nature being what it is, no-one wants to look foolish and ask.