[FEATURE] Migrate Dependencies to Gradle Version Catalog

[andy-k-improving]

Is your feature request related to a problem?
Currently, dependency versions are being declared on respective build.gradle file module with Groovy DSL.
This scattered approach complicates maintenance, increase the risk of inconsistencies, and make it challenging to manage and update dependencies across the SQL project.

Let's take Junit as an example:
Which both versions .4.13.2 and 5.9.3 are being declared within the project, and because of this, test-cases syntax are being diverted accordingly throughout the project.

What solution would you like?
To have a two-phases approach to eventually migrate all the versions declaration from the current form, to Gradle version catalog, which includes:

• Phase-1: Centralise all version declaration in the form of Gradle property
• Phase-2: Migrate Gradle properties into a standalone libs.versions.toml file.

What alternatives have you considered?
A Gradle version catalog is not suitable in this SQL project, then we should at-least centralise all version declaration into parent module, as a custom configuration file.

Do you have any additional context?
Gradle site reference for version catalogs: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/version_catalogs.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com

PR placeholder:

• Phase-1: Centralise version declaration
  • Build: Centralise dependencies version - Pt1 #3294
• Phase-2: Migrate to version catalogs

[andy-k-improving]

Related PR:
#3294