Maintenance work in SharePoint SQL Server

Hi,
We are planing to shut down SQL server due to some maintenance activities. Therefore need to send a downtime notification to users. What is the best way to make the share point service unavailable to users?
- Is that we will directly shutdown the SQL since the maintenance work will be done in it?
or
- SharePoint server's services need to be stopped first ?
Thanks
srabon

You do not need to stop any SharePoint services prior to stopping SQL. SharePoint will of course throw errors in the ULS and Event Logs, but once SQL is restored SharePoint will restore it's connections to the SQL databases.
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