Many have done adventure games, Database front ends, simple utilities and some small Applications or even serious product prototyping with these products. So scripting is a great intro into programming concepts. Consider it as a way to get your feet wet. There are people that can become configuration guru's, and really help companies as consultants, just setting up scripts and automating things. But if you are hungry to go on, there is still a long way to go.
Databases often have their own scripting environments or languages that are pretty powerful.
Whole solutions can be created in them. If you can think of things you need your database to do, there is a good chance that there is a database environment that will allow you to program it. From these you can really get good at making powerful solutions using their environments. Database Programming is not a requirement to becoming a programmer, and is somewhat of a specialty. But many of the concepts you learn making and managing a database program will be great experience for later on.