Sort upcoming birthdays based on current date

Question

I have the following table of people and their birthdays:

name        birthday
----------------------
yannis      1979-06-29
natalia     1980-08-19
kostas            


        

Answer 1

Seems to be rather fast, no problems with leap years:

SELECT * 
FROM `people` 
ORDER BY CONCAT(SUBSTR(`birthday`,6) < SUBSTR(CURDATE(),6), SUBSTR(`birthday`,6))

Все гениальное -- просто! ;)