[6.1] Fix | Improve error handling when creating performance counters

[edwardneal]

Description

This ports #3623 to the release/6.1 branch. It's as described in the original PR.

Issues

Fixes #3595.

Testing

I've re-run the manual test and confirmed the fix operates in v6.1.

[paulmedynski]

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 66.66667% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 59.96%. Comparing base (7a7b54e) to head (474928e).
⚠️ Report is 12 commits behind head on release/6.1.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
...oft/Data/SqlClient/Diagnostics/SqlClientMetrics.cs	66.66%	1 Missing ⚠️

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- Misses           18913    24594    +5681     

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