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Adding clarity to location_root #6963

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What are you changing in this pull request and why?

Adding footnote for location_root

Closes #1850

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@@ -22,11 +22,13 @@ When materializing a model as `table`, you may include several optional configs
| Option | Description | Required? | Example |
|---------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------------|
| file_format | The file format to use when creating tables (`parquet`, `delta`, `iceberg`, `hudi`, `csv`, `json`, `text`, `jdbc`, `orc`, `hive` or `libsvm`). | Optional | `parquet`|
| location_root | The created table uses the specified directory to store its data. The table alias is appended to it. | Optional | `/mnt/root` |
| location_root [^1] | The created table uses the specified directory to store its data. The table alias is appended to it. | Optional | `/mnt/root` |
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⚠️ [vale] reported by reviewdog 🐶
[custom.Typos] Oops there's a typo -- did you really mean 'location_root'?

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Apache Spark / Databricks: location_root = "external table"
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