Publishing Wizard - Best Practices

We have three Oracle database environment ( Dev, Test and Prod) and every reports on the same BO Enterprise. For each Publishing Wizard, we need to set in which database the report needs to be referred. Our problem is that I need to go on Console Management, open each report published and set the correct database and repeat the same step every time.
Could you suggest any solution or best practice for this?

You can write  a small utility in VB which will change the database server name for all the Crystal Reports.
Here is the algorithm:
Loop
Open the report
Change the Database credentials using either .NET/RDC SDK.
Save the Report
Exit Loop
I'm sure the code will not exceed more that 30-50 line.
You can find the samples on SDN which explain how to use these SDKs.

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