The google desktop and destopsidebar is a must since a lot of us do not want to go to Vista for many reasons. This is a show stopper for me right now since I need the multiple gauge and charts to be displayed in some kind of sidebar. Windows has no plans for a sidebar for XP and below.
To add the user and password to this:
invoke-sql-ConnectionString "odbc;dsn=mysqltest;driver=MySQL ODBC 3.51Driver;server=mysql;database=test;user=root;pass=''" -sql "SELECT * FROM TestData"
Note for the password, I am using two single quotes '.