Maintaining multiple universes for separate environments

I know this is a basic question, but are there guidelines on how to manage separate universes for different versions of the same physical database structure? For example, what's a good way to manage universes for separate test environments where the table owner/qualifier is different for each environment (i.e. test1.tablename, test2.tablename, test3.tablename, prod.tablename).

There are a couple of options that I will share with you.
Option one is the least work on the BOBJ side and the most work on the DBA side. The DBA must create an account with access only to the required tables (or views). This means that account does not require the qualifier (test1.table_name) and instead can reference only by table_name. Now there is no issue when migrating from test1 to test2 to prod.
Unfortunately, our DBA team didn't like that option. So I created a short VBA script, hosted in Excel, that we use to update our universe as we move it from one environment to another. We've been using it for years now, and it has been working fine. However, starting with BOBJ 4.0 they removed the option of VBA / SDK scripting from the universe, so I'm not sure what we're going to do when we get to that version.
If you're interested in having a look at the script, I've posted it on my blog here:
http://www.dagira.com/2008/03/06/using-the-designer-sdk-to-ease-migrations/

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