CHORE: Deduplicate tests while preserving coverage and edge cases (#833)

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- Remove 29 overwritten test definitions and consolidate equivalent
repeated scenarios without changing the surviving cursor/encoding test
bodies.
- Consolidate Binary UTF-8 tests while retaining all 104 distinct string
inputs and 7 raw-byte inputs, and explicitly test rejection of surrogate
code points. Remove checks of Python's decoder that misleadingly claimed
native conversion coverage.
- Preserve distinct database paths, NULL/LOB/encoding cases, and
parameterized coverage; add a regression guard against same-scope
duplicate test names.
- Change tests only: production code, coverage exclusions, pipeline
configuration, and reporting configuration are unchanged.

**Coverage:** The authoritative combined Python/C++ reports retain
exactly the same covered-line sets across all 44 production files:
**9,419 / 11,068 lines (85.10%)**, with zero previously covered lines
lost. The existing report provides line coverage, not branch coverage.

**Validation:** Windows native extension build passed; 326 targeted unit
tests and 254 retained integration tests passed. `python -m black
--check --line-length=100 mssql_python tests` passed (101 files). Exact
comparison confirmed all original Binary string/byte inputs are retained
once. Selected-suite collection changed from 1,607 to 1,559 items.

**Cross-platform CI:** [Baseline run
180444](https://sqlclientdrivers.visualstudio.com/public/_build/results?buildId=180444)
tested `1cf04a1317b07b861f3b42f4147404006b5953ba`; [cleanup run
180469](https://sqlclientdrivers.visualstudio.com/public/_build/results?buildId=180469)
tested `69e9c49cef5c9490b90d121555dd2e83869d40d8`. All 17 jobs passed
after retries. The cleanup run used the unchanged PR-validation pipeline
on the feature branch.

| OS / configuration | Before | After | Change |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Windows x64 - SQL 2022 | 5:32 | 4:29 | -19.0% |
| Windows x64 - SQL 2025 | 7:08 | 7:04 | -1.0% |
| Windows x64 - LocalDB | 4:41 | 4:13 | -9.9% |
| macOS - SQL 2022 (retry) | 11:27 | 10:05 | -11.9% |
| macOS - SQL 2025 (retry) | 17:56 | 14:21 | -20.0% |
| Ubuntu x64 - SQL 2022 | 3:14 | 2:43 | -15.7% |
| Ubuntu x64 - SQL 2025 | 4:18 | 3:38 | -15.7% |
| Debian x64 - SQL 2022 | 3:05 | 2:40 | -13.6% |
| Debian x64 - SQL 2025 | 4:05 | 3:32 | -13.5% |
| RHEL x64 | 3:15 | 2:39 | -18.2% |
| Alpine x64 | 3:19 | 2:44 | -17.3% |
| Ubuntu ARM64 | 13:57 | 13:59 | +0.2% |
| Debian ARM64 | 18:00 | 17:13 | -4.4% |
| RHEL ARM64 | 15:56 | 15:48 | -0.8% |
| Alpine ARM64 (retry) | 23:37 | 22:41 | -4.0% |

Times are successful pytest-step wall times, including coverage and
command/container overhead but excluding queueing, dependency
installation, builds, and failed-attempt costs. Both macOS jobs
initially timed out during SQL setup before pytest; Alpine ARM64
initially failed the unchanged pooling-speed threshold. Those three jobs
passed on attempt 2 without code changes. These are single-run
observations with hosted-runner variability, not a demonstrated
repeatable causal speedup.

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.github/prompts/setup-dev-env.prompt.md

@@ -228,9 +228,13 @@ sudo apt-get install -y cmake build-essential python3-dev
 
 **If missing (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora):**
 ```bash
-sudo dnf install -y cmake gcc-c++ python3-devel
+sudo dnf install -y cmake gcc-c++ python3-devel glibc-gconv-extra
 ```
 
+`glibc-gconv-extra` supplies ODBC's iconv conversions for legacy code pages such
+as Korean CP949. Minimal UBI/RHEL images omit these modules; install them before
+running the encoding tests on either x64 or ARM64.
+
 **If missing (SUSE):**
 ```bash
 sudo zypper install -y cmake gcc-c++ python3-devel

eng/pipelines/pr-validation-pipeline.yml

@@ -1338,7 +1338,8 @@ jobs:
         
         # Install Python 3.12 (available in RHEL 9.4+) and development tools
         # Note: curl and wget omitted to avoid conflicts with curl-minimal
-        dnf install -y python3.12 python3.12-pip python3.12-devel python3.12-libs gnupg2 glibc-devel kernel-headers
+        # ODBC needs the extra iconv modules for legacy code pages such as Korean CP949.
+        dnf install -y python3.12 python3.12-pip python3.12-devel python3.12-libs gnupg2 glibc-devel glibc-gconv-extra kernel-headers
         dnf install -y gcc gcc-c++ make binutils cmake
         # If that doesn't work, try installing from different repositories
         if ! which gcc; then
@@ -1551,7 +1552,8 @@ jobs:
         
         # Install Python 3.12 (available in RHEL 9.4+) and development tools
         # Note: curl and wget omitted to avoid conflicts with curl-minimal
-        dnf install -y python3.12 python3.12-pip python3.12-devel python3.12-libs gnupg2 glibc-devel kernel-headers
+        # ODBC needs the extra iconv modules for legacy code pages such as Korean CP949.
+        dnf install -y python3.12 python3.12-pip python3.12-devel python3.12-libs gnupg2 glibc-devel glibc-gconv-extra kernel-headers
         dnf install -y gcc gcc-c++ make binutils cmake
         # If that doesn't work, try installing from different repositories
         if ! which gcc; then