How to reset admin account

On our development database someone changed set administrator=no for my admin account. How do I set it back to admin? Its not letting me in.
Thank you for your help!
pakya

If someone else set your account to a non-admin, then they must have an admin account....can't you ask them to set you back to an admin?

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