Dynamic order by and JOIN

Hi,
Here is my code:
ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.sp_GetPeopleDetails_1
@.OrderByClause varchar(100)
AS
DECLARE @.SQLStatement varchar(255)
SELECT @.SQLStatement = 'SELECT People.PeopleID, People.FirstLastName, People.Title,
Departments.AcademicArea, Shifts.ShiftName, People.TShirt,
People.ParkingFROM Departments INNER JOIN
People ONDepartments.DepartmentID = People.DepartmentID
INNER JOINShifts ON People.ShiftID = Shifts.ShiftID
order By ' +@.OrderByClause
EXEC(@.SQLStatement)
/* SET NOCOUNT ON */
RETURN
When I run it, the error is: "Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'IN'."
Can anyone point my mistake?
Thanks.

Could the 'IN' be in the @.OrderByClause text?

Brian

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run the query in the Query analyzer passing the order by clause and do a PRINT(@.SQLStatement) to see how its building up.

On another note you should not be prefixing your stored proc with "SP_". It causes performance degradation as the sql server will first look under master database assuming its a system proc and then not finding there will look under the database you ware working with.

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Finally, problem solved, when I run it in Query analyzer itshowed a truncated query, very strange as I have had it set to varchar(255). Ijust increased it to 500 even though the query does not have more 255characters.
Thanks for the tip with the sp_