Let me start off by saying I know little to nothing about SQL, I am an infrastructure guy.
I am in the process of automating our Windows updates. However, once I got to some of the servers with databases on them I ran into a problem. My DBA is telling me that the SQL database needs to manually be stopped before the server can be rebooted. So I cannot reboot the machines and install updates via GPO. So my question is two part:
1. Does it actually need a manual stop of the database? From what I have read online the options are mixed.
2. If it does need a stop command before a reboot, how do you guys update the OS on your SQL servers?
Thanks and please let me know if you need more info!