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Originally Posted by Lynne

You may change it for everyone in Maintenance > execute SQL query > automatic query. Make sure you have given yourself permissions to run queries in your config.php page.

Assuming this is the right line of code:

$config['SpecialUsers']['canrunqueries'] = '';

For some reason, I'm still not allowed to execute an sql query.

You are not authorized to execute SQL queries

Here's how I provided it:

$config['SpecialUsers']['canrunqueries'] = '1,3';