Which Tabular Editor tool should you use to audit a model for performance or design issues?

• A. Best Practices Analyzer
• B. Perspective Editor
• C. TOM Explorer
• D. Vertipaq Analyzer

Answer: (A)

Best Practices Analyzer helps you automatically scan your Tabular model for common design and performance pitfalls. It flags issues that can impact query speed or maintainability—things like missing or conflicting metadata, unused columns, overly complex calculations, hidden or unnecessary relationships, and other design smells. This makes it the go-to tool for a broad audit of how the model is built and how well it will perform in practice, guiding you to corrective changes that improve both performance and design quality. The other tools serve more specialized purposes: Perspective Editor focuses on what users see in a specific perspective; TOM Explorer lets you inspect the model’s metadata structure; VertiPaq Analyzer dives into storage and compression details for deeper storage-performance analysis rather than a general design/quality audit.