Feature 318 add db for testing

[John-Sharples]

In this PR

• Adding mariaDB to the GitHub actions build for unit testing
• Now running tests for METdbLoad in GitHub actions
• Added several functions and fixtures to conftest to facilitate working with the database
• Added an example test for met_db_load
• Uses test data from METreformat
• minor refactoring of met_db_load to separate argparse from main code
• removed a bunch of relative imports

Still to do / decide:

• Are we happy to use the test data from METrefactor?
• Address TODO comments in review.
• Update doco

Pull Request Testing

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  Ran met_db_load on example dataset.

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  NA

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  Yes

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  If yes, describe the new output and/or changes to the existing output:
  
  Yes as described above

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[bikegeek]

GHA has issues with /usr/bin/git and the usual SonarQube quality gate issues.