How can I supply a table name at runtime using LINQ to SQL?

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Published on 2009-05-11T15:07:37Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 21:03 UTC
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I have to use LINQ to SQL and along with it a pure SQL classic query. And this SQL query has the Table from where my data will be generated, but I will not know this Table previously. It will be known in compile time.

So how can I make LINQ understand from what Table I want to make the query?

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